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(ANSA) – GIFFONI VALLE PIANA, JULY 24 – As Claudio Gubitosi, who conceived and founded the Giffoni festival 54 years ago, always says, “the most incredible and beautiful things” have always happened in this town near Salerno. It also happens that there is Mariolina Gamba, the doyenne of film journalists, who is 83 years old and in the last 40 years has never missed an appointment as a correspondent from Milan to tell what Francois Truffaut defined as the “most necessary festival”. And it happens that Claudio Gubitosi unexpectedly calls her on stage to give her the Parthenope award and to tell her incredible experience and perseverance to the Giffoners who welcome her with applause and stadium-like cheering. “Today I am here as in a fairy tale, there are stories that sometimes we need to remember to give an even stronger sign of what the Giffoni experience is – says Gubitosi – and I want to introduce you who are younger who Mariolina Gamba is: she has always written about films, for over 40 years she has followed us and written about us in her magazine (Il Ragazzo Selvaggio). I think no festival has a friend like her”. Moved and surprised, Gamba explains: “I watch all the films I can, as much as I can, cinema is part of my life, I am still here, and I hope for much longer. Long live the Giffoni festival”. (ANSA).
2024-07-24 19:43:07