L’ARMINUTA

L’ARMINUTA

L’arminuta by Donatella di Pietrantonio published by Einaudi is yet another book for which I thank Monica.

Arminuta is a dialect word from Abruzzo and means ‘comeback’.

Comeback, arminuta in fact, is the nickname given to the protagonist of the book that won the 2017 Campiello Prize

The Campiello Prize is a literary award by entrepreneurs from the Veneto region and conceived by Edilio Rusconi when he wasn’t yet publisher in 1963.

Campielli are actually small camps, or squares, typical in Venice

The trophy that is awarded to the winning book is in the shape of the characteristic ‘vera da pozzo’ that is often found in the centre of campielli (small squares) for the supply of water, in particular inspired by the vera da pozzo of San Trovaso in the Dorsoduro district.

The story of L’arminuta also inspired director Giuseppe Bonito.

The film starring Sofia Fiore and Carlotta De Leonardis was presented at the 2021 Film Festival in Rome and is distributed by Lucky Red.

This trailer shows me images that are very different from what I imagined when I read about them.

Have you seen the movie?

What do you think about?

The author: Donatella di Pietrantonio also won the David di Donatello Prize in 2022 for best non-original screenplay.

This ‘comeback’ forces the reader to reconsider the concept of mother.

Mothers.

I told you about someone who had two as Americo Marino and how they both embodied the true essence of being a mother.

Now I tell you about someone who has had two different dropouts.

But the concept of motherhood is so extensive and interconnected with innate love that it can also be expressed in a small, tiny Woman.

And where life deprives of maternal affection, life can give a sister.

“My sister. Like an unlikely flower, grown on a small lump of earth attached to the rock. From her I learned endurance. Now we are less alike in our features, but it is the same sense we find in this being thrown into the world. In complicity we are saved.”

I HAVE SEEN HER

I HAVE SEEN HER

I saw her win it …

And “it” is the BB Global Force award presented by Billboard magazine during the BB Women in music ceremony. 

Global Force as an award given in recognition of a woman in the music industry who has made a significant contribution to the business and who, through her work and continued success, inspires generations of women to take on increasing responsibilities in the field.

The Women in music event celebrates women at the forefront of all fields of music from composers and songwriters to educators and all other music professions.

I saw her …

She needs no introduction: Annalisa, @nali is Global Force.

I did not follow her debut, and the first time I heard of her was in the measure of “good but second best.”

Until during a play organised by the middle school my son attends, a pupil struck me by singing about a blue cat

I then went to research and discovered that the song was by Annalisa.

Annalisa who for all these years has continued undaunted to be “good, but in second place”.

And yet there is not a person who does not know her ‘I saw her …’.

Despite having my radio perpetually on the frequency of Virgin, a radio that only plays rock music, without really knowing how or why, I have found the refrain of Mon amour in my head.

And ‘I saw her…’ has officially become part of my way of speaking: when I find myself describing something mixed, tangled, entangled.

Physics graduate Annalisa Scarrone, Nali, teaches us how to chase dreams and show the world the Global Force.

Did you see her win?

I dedicate this photo to Tony: ultimate Katy Perry connoisseur.

THERE IS STILL TOMORROW.

THERE IS STILL TOMORROW.

There is still tomorrow which sees the directorial debut of Paola Cortellesi is the film that won the Audience Award, Special Jury Prize and Mention as Best First Work at the Rome Film Festival

Paola Cortellesi doesn’t need to be introduced, I always remember one of her gags in which she ironically listed all the things she has done, which are really so many and very different from each other, but which have the same feature in common: they are all done well.

I thank Elisa and her proposal: we went to the movies together fearing that we would have to use tissues to wipe tears and instead we mostly surprised ourselves.

The Friends.
In the movie: Delia and Marisa.

Emotion, however, was not lacking.

I, for one, was moved by the portrayal of a mother’s love for her daughter, who is played by Romana Maggiora Vergano in the film.

A love above all things, a love for which nothing is impossible, a pure and unwavering love.

Fragility and strength in a maelstrom of endurance and determination in which the ability to carry the crushing weight of a long interminable series of verbal and physical injustices and bullying, is catalyzed in the resolute will to seek a better destiny for Marcella.

Mother and daughter.

A crushed mother and a model daughter who does not understand Delia’s submission.

Succumbing and resisting at the same time, in a dance that is broken melody, is rock, is hip hop rap, is retro.

Marcella does not understand, but she will.

Marcella will look at her mother Delia and see the affirmation of a seemingly simple but extremely important gesture as a right, as a beginning.

Every change has a beginning.

There is still tomorrow represents “the music that changes” in a literal sense: I cannot fail to mention the repertoire songs from the soundtrack:
Aprite le finestre Fiorella Bini
Nessuno Naked Music
Perdoniamoci Achille Togliani
A bocca chiusa Daniele Silvestri
M’innamoro davvero Fabio Concato
La notte dei miracoli Lucio Dalla
Calvin The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
B.O.B. – Bombs Over Baghdad Outkast
The little things Big Gigantic featuring Angela McCluskey
Swinging on the right side Lorenzo Maffia and Alessandro La Corte
Tu sei il mio grande amor Lorenzo Maffia, Alessandro La Corte and Enrico Rispoli.

Surprising, isn’t it?

Surprising as what you don’t expect from There is still tomorrow: the ending.

Indeed, in my heart I hoped that Delia’s project would not be the obvious one, but at the same time I would not have guessed an epilogue like the one with which Paola Cortellesi invites everyone to a beautiful reflection.

Light yet explosive, simple yet disruptive, just like Delia, just like Paola.

Yes because Delia is Paola, she is Marcella, and she is our grandmother.

Delia is so many lives of giving up, Delia is so many years of suffering.

Like nothing at all.

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