L’AMORE MOLESTO
by MARIO MARTONE
Written by Mario Martone, Elena Ferrante / From the novel L’amore molesto by Elena Ferrante / Starring Anna Bonaiuto, Angela Luce, Lucia Maglietta, Gianni Cajafa, Peppe Lanzetta, Lina Polito, Italo Celoro / Produced by Teatri Uniti, Lucky Red, Rai Tre
Italy 1995 / 104’
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Delia comes back to Naples for the funeral of her mother Amalia and investigates in the last months of her life to understand her death. Little by little, Delia identifies with her mother in a lucid, painful and self-punishing delirium. She starts analysing herself, her memories, her and Amalia’s body, and the unchallenged balance which has remained the same in time and is rooted in a city under renovation with an explosion of colours and an extraordinary polyphony of sounds.
INTERPETER
Born in the Friuli region, but from an originally Neapolitan family, Anna Bonaiuto Anna Bonaiuto graduated from the National Academy of Drama and immediately started working with some prominent figures in the theatre such as Luca Ronconi, Mario Missiroli, Mario Martone and Carlo Cecchi. She made her debut in the cinema in 1973 with the film Teresa la ladra by Carlo Di Palma starring also Monica Vitti and Michele Placido.
That same year, Lina Wertmuller wanted her in her film Film d’amore e d’anarchia – Ovvero Stamattina alle 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza…
Since then, many directors have given her leading roles in their films, such as: Bruno Corbucci, Luciano Emmer, Pupi Avati, Giuseppe Ferrara, and Luigi Faccini.
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