Valeria Golino plays celebrated Italian author Goliarda Sapienza, but it's Matilda de Angelis, as her livewire prison pal, who gives this rather obscure story what spark of life it has. Thereby hangs ...

Director Mario Martone ('Nostalgia') returns to competition in Cannes with a movie about Italian author Goliarda Sapienza, played by Valeria Golino. By Jordan Mintzer It’s not generally a good sign ...

If you weren't aware of who she is, the writer Goliarda Sapienza had a fascinating life. An Italian actress and author who gained widespread acclaim for her novel, "L'arte della gioia," only after she ...

Literary biopics are hard to pull off, and even harder to market (1995’s Total Eclipse missed a trick with “Leonardo DiCaprio IS Arthur Rimbaud!”). Even well-known U.S. writers tend to be the domain ...

Fuori is a sometimes engaging, sometimes self-indulgent story of an Italian female writer’s unorthodox journey towards personal and creative freedom in early 1980s Rome. The film is based around the ...

Cannes: Working as a female-focused character study, an incarceration drama, and a niche literary biopic, the two Italian greats craft an uplifting tribute to nonconformity. Born in 1924, with a life ...

Mario Martone‘s Cannes Film Festival Competition title Fuori had its world premiere Tuesday night at the Lumière Theater, earning a 7 1/2–minute ovation. From a script by Ippolita Di Majo and Martone, ...

For Italian actor and director Valeria Golino, it was a dream come true to play feminist writer Goliarda Sapienza in Mario Martone’s Cannes competition title “Fuori.” Golino was in Cannes last year as ...

The list of films presenting a prison sentence as a life-enhancing experience is a short one, which is enough on its own to grant Mario Martone's latest "Fuori" a certain novelty. Its subject, the ...