One of the most anticipated films of the exhibition lands, the rape of the two girls and the murder of one of the two that horrified the country. With an exceptional cast, from Scamarcio to Golino
Benedetta Porcaroli, how difficult was it to redo Donatella’s staring eyes when she was freed from the trunk of the car? “Those eyes are the loss of faith in mankind, even though she said that men are not all alike. I could only remotely imagine a woman’s violation in mind and body. This story is necessary and necessary, it is important for young people like me. I hope I have restored some justice to Donatella ».
Two girls in the trunk of a 127. One, Rosaria Lopez, killed, drowned in a bathtub; the other, Donatella Colasanti, seriously wounded, believed dead by her tormentors. A night watchman hears his moans. Raped, tortured for 36 hours. It was the night between 29 and 30 September 1975. And this, out of competition, is the film about the Circeo massacre (in cinemas from 7 October for Warner Bros). The result was a process that was the watershed of femicides, the courtrooms with men who hate women. The Catholic education of Stefano Mordini is taken from the fluvial novel by Edoardo Albinati, 1292 pages: “But the plot is only 100”, the rest are reflections on evil that touch the essay. An epitaph of the Roman bourgeoisie, and of how that tragedy was possible. A bit like “The White Ribbon”, where Haneke reconstructs the roots of Nazism, Mordini recounts the banality of evil that emerges in normal, well-to-do families. Those of Andrea Ghira (the actor Giulio Pranno), Gianni Guido (Francesco Cavallo) and Angelo Izzo, the possessed with his eyes bulging (Luca Vergoni).
The context of fascism and drugs is in the background, «the starting point – says the director – I didn’t want the viewer to say: well, they were fascists and drug addicts, I’m not like that. There is a wider responsibility, impunity concerned everyone ». The absent families, and the delays of the Catholic school, where sometimes it is enough for you to pay private tuition. Jasmine Trinca, in the role of one of the parents together with Valeria Golino, Valentina Cervi, Riccardo Scamarcio, «senators» of this choral history, describes it very well «the contemptuous gaze of the bourgeoisie on two girls, unfortunate and proletarian. In the training of those boys in an all-male school, there are two virtuous models, the Virgin Mary who did not procreate by passing from the body, and the mothers. For the rest, the professors sow the idea of female corruption ». The Rolexes, the beautiful cars, the culture of the pack. And then the massacres of the state, the oppression, the ideological violence, was that Italy there. Valeria Golino regrets «the beautiful feminists of the past. Today there is freedom of thought from a social and gender point of view, but before the gaze was unscrupulous and now disguised in politically correct. I can’t get used to being a victim is a medal. ”
Valentina Cervi she grew up in those schools with the crucifix well on display and remembers “impunity, male aggression. I wonder: the clamor of the trial was due to the fact that Rosaria was a virgin ». Federica Torchetti plays her, a twenty-year-old who knew nothing about the Circeo massacre, but has precise ideas about the rape trials. Since 1975 I am no longer a crime against public morality but against the person. But in the courts they still ask: “How were you dressed, if you were drunk, if it was you who provoked?” Women denounce more but find it hard to be believed ». Mordini, what was to be avoided? «Pietism and spectacularization. In the most violent scene I was uncomfortable, I was afraid of not being up to it. The two girls leaned against each other, they hugged each other, on the set there was a kind of emotional trance ». After the film there is talk of a television series. The meeting takes place in the Sala Stucchi of the Excelsior, where one of the most beautiful love scenes in cinema was filmed, when Robert De Niro rents the entire room of the restaurant to dance with his first great love, before it becomes the his regret. Donatella and Rosaria, in the car headed for Circeo, had accepted the invitation of clean-faced boys to spend the day in a beautiful villa, happy, carefree (“but we have to go home before dinner time”). And dressing their youth with dreams and aspirations, on the Via Pontina, they sing Lucio Battisti: «And if you really want to live a luminous and more fragrant life…».
September 6, 2021 (change September 6, 2021 | 20:34)
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