“A news that grieves me deeply, cinema loses a monument of genius, intuition, avant-garde. But even a woman gifted with great irony, she was light years ahead of everything. The last time I saw Lina Wertmuller was this summer: we met to talk about a theater project. It was a chat seasoned with an avalanche of memories. I had the privilege of working with her in 2001 in the film Francesca e Nunziata with Sophia Loren, and Giancarlo Giannini. Raoul Bova was also there. It never stood still: not only was he a director, he was a lighting technician as well, he controlled the costumes, the lines, a hurricane“This is how the actress Claudia Gerini expresses her condolences for the death of Lina Wertmuller, who died in Rome at the age of 93.
The actress underlines how on the set of Francesca and Nunziata Lina she used to remember many anecdotes from the past: “When she loved to dance until 4 in the morning in clubs, and then at 6 she was fresh as a rose directing on the set. Or situations hilarious that they had come to create. He was a genius but he never lacked that irony of his. I remember that Loren looked at her in amazement, I never went to dance until 4 … “.
So Claudia Gerini insists: “I really have to thank this great woman, director, a heritage for cinema, for choosing me, we shot in very suggestive places like Procida, set in Terra Murata. The film is based on the novel by Maria Orsini who director was able to read before it was published. The merit of Lina Wertmuller also lies in the fact that she convinced Sophia Loren to return to acting in Italy after so many years of absence “. The director had already directed the two protagonists Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini in the film Made of blood between two men because of a widow. “Yesterday – concludes Gerini I lost my beloved grandmother – strange but two very important figures of exemplary women in my life which I looked at with great admiration”.
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