25/06/2024 - The Italian director has kicked off filming on his new movie - also starring Matilda De Angelis and Elodie - which tells the tale of the versatile Italian actress and writer

Filming has kicked off in Rome on Fuori, Mario Martone’s new movie which will tell the story of Goliarda Sapienza, the twentieth century Italian actress and writer whose hit novel, The Art of Joy, which was published posthumously, was recently adapted into a TV series also called The Art of Joy, directed by Valeria Golino and was presented at the latest Cannes Film Festival.

And it will be none other than Valeria Golino (seen last year in I Told You So [+see also:
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“Nobody and no place is real forever”, wrote Goliarda Sapienza in Le certezze del dubbio. The story sees a writer ending up in prison following a crazy and unexpected act. While incarcerated, she meets a few young prisoners which leads to a kind of rebirth. Following her release, during a torrid Roman summer where time seems to stand still, the writer continues to meet up with the women she’d forged close relationships with and who have also been set free. A profound relationship begins which has a decisive effect on her life; a genuine bond which no-one on the outside could ever understand. This writer is Goliarda Sapienza, and this is her story, as she herself told it.

The film’s photography falls to Paolo Carnera (Io capitano [+see also:
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Fuori will be the twelfth feature film put forth by Martone, who’s known for his movies presented in competition in Cannes, Nasty Love and Nostalgia [+see also:
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Fuori is an Italian-French co-production between Indigo Film, RAI Cinema and The Apartment in Italy, and SRAB Films in France, made in collaboration with Fremantle. Shooting will take place in Rome for a total duration of eight weeks. The film will be distributed in Italy by 01 Distribution.

(Translated from Italian)