Claudia Cardinal has landed on March 29 in Busto Arsizio (it's appropriate to say, since the Malpensa airport is only a few kilometers) for a tribute to his friend and master Luchino Visconti's film festival in the town was commemorate the centenary of his birth with a screening of the rare stars of the Vague, restored for the occasion by the Centro Sperimentale of Cinematography in Rome.
many journalists waiting in the lobby of the golf club Solbiate Olona, \u200b\u200bwhile I have my heart in my throat, because I remember a beautiful film that I loved very much: Once Upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone, "a film remembered by all young people "she will tell me the interview.
Visconti Di says: "I remember a wonderful and full of affection, but the set was a beast." He tells us then, with plenty of details and anecdotes, the rigor and perfectionism of the teacher and how important it was her teaching for her and all the other actors who have had the good fortune to work with him.
The actress lets go to the memories: mentions Unknown thieves, his first film ("I, little of the giants"). Nostalgically reminiscent of the Italian cinema of the past, the '60s, "a great season, full of professionalism and rigor, but also passion. We worked with great joy, was like being in a family. While today the cinema has become just a business, and this bothers me. " And he sees the cause of this change in the producers, "which in Italy are not likely for a more ambitious project without the security of an economic return." I agree, and then dare to ask if maybe this is the cause that drives most of the Italian artists to "escape" abroad. "In France [where he lives] there is more respect for the art and the artist, there is a different culture of cinema, "says the Cardinal, with mild polemical tone. His words are then reminded that yesterday, still here in Busto Arsizio, the screening of Rossellini's Rome, during the tribute to the master, said Renzo Rossellini, the son of the father of Neorealism, "in Cinema Italy is regarded as a newspaper the next day gets old. " It is perhaps for this reason that, on the centenary of the birth of two of the greatest authors of Italian cinema, exhibitions and events are organized all over the world, while in Italy, home to both, it is hard to find? "Unfortunately - the actress says with regret, Italian cinema has very little memory." And when he suggests that perhaps this loss of memory, and the consequent impoverishment of Italian cinema, is also due to the escape of our talent abroad, holding me back saying: "I get suggestions for new films from around the world, but not Italy. "But he hastens to add-actress-these events, festivals such as Busto Arsizio, increasing more and more, have a good time to acquaint the public, especially the younger, very sensitive and receptive to a quality films, which is part of our history and should not be forgotten. " It is for this reason, suggests Franco Mariotti, associate artistic director of the BAFF, Vittorio jacket, which should promote the distribution of the films of the past that are now virtually unobtainable.
But then, if we look only to the past, there is no hope for the new Italian cinema? "Maybe something is moving in recent years," she says with optimism. "Maybe we need to start from the schools of the Italian tradition?" I suggest. Claudia Cardinale avoid the question evokes the prestige of the Italian school of the past, international nature of his breath. Interrupting you, then, ventured that perhaps, without the great masters, there may be more than large schools. Responds with a smile: "I got"
.* * taken from Alvise Barbaro, Divine Claudia, La Padania, 29/03/2006.
