Embedded and aged with make-up: Valeria Golino is shown in her new actress film, La Gioia. Yet, even for a moment he loses the charm of his smile.
The film, directed by Nicolangelo Gelormini, was released in Italian theatres on February 12, produced by Viola Prestieri and Nicola Giuliani with Ht Film, Indigo Film and Vision Distribution in collaboration with Sky. It is freely inspired by a case of chronicle that ten years ago upset Italy, that of Gloria Rosboch, the Piedmontese teacher killed by a former student. Valeria, who here offers us a truly extraordinary interpretation, has the role of the protagonist, Gioia, a middle-aged professor, dismissed and almost invisible, who ends up falling in love with a student who in reality wants only to exploit it (He is Saul Nanni) and who in the end will take away her life.
Who is Joy, the woman who lends her face in this narrative?
A person you have never felt the joy of being loved, looked at, desired, and who for the first time believes that this is possible. And therefore he absolutely does not want to miss his chance, even if he has enough experience and culture to realize that in the relationship with this boy so much younger than her there is something wrong.
This invisible woman who does not know love is actually exactly the opposite of what she is, Valeria. How did you work to make it so intense and credible?
The construction of the character was laborious, long and careful: we created a sort of “mask” thanks to the work of an entire team, the maker Maurizio Fazzini, the costume designer Antonella Cannarozzi, the hairdresser Marco Perna, the Piedmontese coach who worked to help me in the accent, Tatiana Lepore. This accurate technical preparation, although somehow outside the character, for me it worked as a sort of liberating vehicle. And it allowed me to give life to Joy, in her “invisibility”, through a path where my soul joined her.
And with the director Gelormini, who directed her, how did she find herself?
Nicolangelo’s gaze has always been very attentive, full of tenderness and at the same time shiny, sometimes even ruthless. Compared to his actors he is always extremely welcoming, he creates a network in which you can move and yet you know that you can jump, because bad that go someone will take you, even if you are wrong, even if you are at your worst. This was our way of working together.
Joy as a feeling from which the smile springs, the theme of the film to many different levels, what is it for Valeria Golino?
I believe that joy always has something to do with the outside and that you can, at that moment, make your own. A feeling of strengthening your being, which makes you feel a little more, a way to perceive what is happening to you, to welcome it, to see it. To smile to the other, not only to human beings, but to everything. A moment in which we can be totally open and without superstructures, and in which we feel beautiful, more beautiful than us.
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