Freedom, frankness, courage that make it “a romantic heroine without half measures”, but also “a lonely feminist who goes on his way and at the same time also opens a path for other women”: they are the Features of Oriana Fallaci that Miriam Leone has loved more in interpreting the years of the formation of the most influential and controversial Italian journalist of the twentieth century, disappeared in 2006, in the fiction “Miss Fallaci”, four evenings directed by Luca Ribuoli, Giacomo Martelli e Alessandra Gonnella, broadcast on Rai1 from tonight and on Raiplay even in the original language.
«It is a beautiful training novel that I hope can inspire the new generations, because it tells the story of a girl who starts at 26 and goes alone to conquer America: a story of courage, but also of great pain, of suffering , who teaches how important it is in life to choose also the people we love, “says the actress by meeting the press in Sanremo, on the sidelines of her participation in the festival as a co-conduct of Thursday evening.
“Miss Fallaci is Oriana in America, where they called her just like that and where she will live for a long time, living in New York until the end of her days,” explains Leone. We are in the 1950s and Oriana Fallaci is still known as “The Girl of Cinema” and works as a reporter for the European Championship. «He goes to New York to try to interview Marilyn Monroe, he cannot, and from this great failure the article that will make it a weight signature is born. In reality he wanted to write about politics, but Oriana does politics even when he talks about Hollywood, reveals what is behind that golden world, he opens his eyes on the truth even at the cost of being disturbing or provocative, always with great intelligence, in -depth study, study Miriam Leone points out again.
Produced by Paramount, Minerva Picture, in association with Redstring, “Miss Fallaci” is also the sharp, often raw and ironic portrait of a society dominated by male figures, and the history of the intense and tormented relationship that the journalist had with his colleague Alfredo Pieroni (played by Maurizio Lastrico), a link full of passion, insecurities and fears, which in the end dragged Fallaci into a spiral of self -destruction. “He lived a toxic love for a narcissistic man, had a disastrous private life, and that was an era in which a woman certainly could not afford a brilliant career and a happy life, a synthesis that is also very difficult today”.
The story also touches the drama of abortion, which then inspired “letter to an never -born child”: “While we were on the set in Sofia – says Leone – I discovered that I was pregnant with my son Orlando, a condition that created a particular bond It is intense with the character. Abortion is a right but also a deep pain, and Oriana had the courage to shout to everyone what this pain was, this indecision. It is a fact that we tell with great respect and that we have reconstructed through private letters and thanks to the support of the family ».
The story, which also has among the interpreters Francesca Agostini, Johannes Johannesson, Ken Duken, Rosanna Gentili, Giordano De Plano, the Catanzaro Francesco Colella, concentrates in the years between 1956 and 1961, and therefore does not portray the war correspondent, The relentless interviewer of the world leaders, the voice of the invectives of “Anger and pride” post 11 September: “There is But the Oriana partisan relay, an episode that fully testifies to his love for freedom. If he had a bad character? Probably yes. But I like to mention Anna Magnani: all people of character have a bad character … ».
