Mario Martone's 'Fuori', taken from a true-life episode in the life of iconic writer Goliarda Sapienza and starring Valeria Golino in the writer's role, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday where it is the only Italian film in competition for the Golden palm.
"It's a road movie set in Rome 1980 and a story of friendship and sisterhood", said the Neapolitan director.
With the literary inspiration, screenwriter Ippolita De Majo "has given shape to an obsession, Goliarda Sapienza, that had gripped us for years," Martone told ANSA, "and that through a truly magical link involved Valeria Golino, who was in her turn linked to the writer.
"So while we were imagining a film about her we learned that Golino had taken the rights to Goliarda Sapienza's Art of Joy for her TV series and the film that she then made and we promised ourselves to work together".
The film tells a part of Goliarda Sapienza's life: the summer in Rome in 1980 when without finances, with the manuscript of The Art of Joy rejected, without a job, she ends up in prison in Rebibbia for stealing jewelry from a friend's house during a party in her chic Roman quarter of Parioli.
