Carmela Carmela has the contagious joy of a little girl, and her face wrinkled like a field ready for planting. eyes bright, sharp, in a nondescript gray-green. In the mouth, lots of profanity and a few teeth survivors of a dripping senile, as well as a smile that warms the heart. Carmela is illiterate: he has had the opportunity to study because he had to help his father in the fields. has eighty, and was not in regret and remorse parchment. Only many memories, beautiful, and some atherosclerosis in telling me a hundred times always with the same words. As a young man, had to be nice: small, petite, big breasts, beautiful hair, a beautiful row of strong teeth, infectious laugh. A free woman. One of those who do not care what they say about her fellow villagers who never has resigned herself to widowhood, dress dark, being alone. One that has always managed to keep up with the other accomplice irony, sharp tongue and sincerity. The teenager who went to the movies and opted for the small stage to be able to make out with the young guy. The girl, though it was no longer celibate for some time, made the 'fuitina' with her husband. The young man who does not miss a village festival, a chance to dance to the sound of accordion and violin. The old woman who became her boyfriend, as usual, many years her junior. Who, for fear of trial of four sons, had with the good soul of his wife, the only phone in the evening and when she is at the country, comes to visit only at night. A Romeo & Juliet in arianoirpinese sauce, at the time of the domestic workers and dentures.
La grande bouffe not always make for pure hedonism and iron will to go beyond their limits of capacity of the intestine and decency, as in the case of the protagonists of the film Ferreri. Sometimes the cause is deeply entrenched, meandering, visible only in the eyes of those who want to watch. Flavia and bulimia. Malata's bulimia than those who binge but do not vomit, accumulates and does not eject. Between midnight raids the pantry and fridge emptied of programming, so just touching the bottom of someone being aware of our misery and desolation of our need for affection. Flavia is affectionate, "light" despite all these weights, carefree and confident despite the continuing deprivation of which is exposed by a mother and child from a grandmother's stepmother. And not for the intervention of a sympathetic father but inconsistent. now in Florence, a center for bulimia. Far from family, and then with some hope. E 'supported, understood, shock, fed, pampered without being spoiled. E 'surrounded by people who know, understand, not judge. Flavia is safe.
Frank Capra and the need for lightness In his day - we are, roughly, at the turn of the forties and fifties - regarded him as the director of "cinepanettoni" made in USA: not Miss asunder, but your spirit and happy ending. During the period when he lived and worked, between the twenties and sixties, was crucial: the years following the crisis of '29 was just needs someone to strappasorrisi tell stories, experienced by the most brilliant actors of the time - James Stewart , Cary Grant tragicomic aspects and characters that would eventually remained in the collective (the angel Clarence, who was even d ' inspiration internettara ). At a time when the most common words are "economic crisis" and "recession", the lightness is a value. Invaluable. And just look at his two masterpieces, 's a Wonderful Life and Arsenic and Old Lace ,
one of the funniest films of film history, to feel light, cheerful, optimistic. And remember to keep it, the lightness, even in times of general well-being.
