2023-10-20 21:14:06
Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Renzo Arbore and Alice Rohrwacher. «No regrets, but going back I would have started being a director sooner»
«I am happy to reward you for the grace with which you exercise all your talents». Renzo Arbore gets emotional when he is called to present the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Rome Film Festival to Isabella Rossellini (“He was the first to give me a job, New York correspondent for L’altra Domenica”, she recalls), together with Alice Rohrwacher who directed her in La chimera. «With your light-hearted and lunar beauty, your curious and free spirit, you show us that you can be an icon without giving up being alive», comments the director. The Sinopoli room is full of adoring friends and fans, the hosts — Gian Luca Farinelli and Paola Malanga, president and artistic director of the party — are no exception. The only one who doesn’t get upset is her who enjoys and enjoys the masterclass she has prepared with curiosity and humor (“Renzo’s teachings: the engine is curiosity, the fuel is laughter”). Buster Keaton and George Méliès. Martin Scorsese and Meryl Streep. Gianni Minà and Mohammed Ali. Robert Redford and Pedro Almodóvar. Konrad Lorenz and Walt Disney. In Isabella Rossellini’s world, there is room for everyone. «I carry cinema in my DNA, not only because I am the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. His maternal grandfather was a photographer, his paternal grandfather built the Barberini cinema in Rome. I’ve always known that you can tell a story with a frame.”
She did it in her own way: as a model, actress, director. «I became one when I was old, if I have one regret it is that I didn’t do it sooner. The credit goes to a filmmaker like Guy Maddin who made me understand that I could shoot with a light crew and a style that harks back to pioneers like Méliès, and to Redford who pushed me to continue after my first work dedicated to my father, My dad is 100 years old — with the Green Porno short series.” In the Retrospective, together with the doc A season with Isabella Rossellini, some of her films, Stromboli, a classic written by her father and Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Symphony with her mother Ingrid are programmed. «I chose them. The first because it shows how Italy has changed: we were a poor country, we are rich but the environment has become impoverished.” The other is «my mother’s last film. Liv Ullman told me about an argument between her and Bergman. She is a pianist, a successful woman who sacrificed her family for work. In one scene he wanted her to show repentance but instead she shows the anger of someone like her, a mother of four children, with an extraordinary career, who regretted nothing.” Not even her, she says laughing. «I do what I like. When at 40 they made me understand that I was old for fashion and cinema, instead of getting depressed, I enrolled in ethology at university.” She now lives on her farm near Long Island (“I learned more from chickens than from books, I admit”) and the cinema is back looking for her. “I look to the future, but I’m realistic: I’m 71 years old, I don’t know what it holds for me.” She supports Italian directors. «I see great vitality, Alice, Sorrentino, Garrone, it seems like a magical moment. I saw There’s Still Tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi: it’s beautiful.” Goodbye Roma. She will return to the theater in January with her monologue, Darwin’s Smile.
October 20, 2023 (modified October 20, 2023 | 9.13pm)
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