Buenos Aires dressed in gala within the framework of the Italian cinema weekwhen among other figures of Cinecittàthe effervescent and successful singer and film director arrived Margherita Vicario. Your prima opera “Glory!”which premieres this Thursday shone in its presentation in the Film Rooms of the Festival and since May 15, it will do the same on the traditional billboard. But he will not do it without scrolls, since his initiatory film has just won three David Di Donatello 2025 Awardsincluding the best novel address.
Empowered. Daughter of the director Francesco Vicario AND SNEATING OF THE MANAGER Marco Vicario and actress Rossana PodestàMargherita knew early that her path was going to be linked to the show, but did not settle for following the family route. First was music, where with a career as a singer -songwriter he positioned himself as a fresh and combative voice, a mixture of irony and commitment. Songs like “Mandela”, “Abaué: Morte said a trap boy” and “Giubbottino”they consolidated her as one of the most original artists of the Italian pop panorama of the last ten years.
Thus, his sound art, of strong social criticism and claim of women, passed the chords of their melodies and reached the cinema. In an exclusive meeting with news, he left his feelings: “I realized that being a lover of classical music, one day I raised how it is possible that I could say 10 or 20 great composers of all time and not even a woman. And that reflection led me to suppose that there was a censorship for women, but it was impossible to understand. I investigated about the history of women in music and I learned of the institutes where they were silent Men, “that was the right thing”, when they had made them hidden.
“Glory!” It is an explosion of vitality and rebellion set in the Venice of the 18th century, where a group of young internal orphan young people in a religious institute discovers the emancipatory power of music. With contemporary pop winks, but with a deeply feminist and lucid look, the film breaks molds from its first scene. “I wanted to tell a story of women who were not victims or heroines, simply girls wanting to live and change things.”
Cinema Paradiso. The film not only obtained the recognition of the specialized criticism that witnessed the Italian Film Festival in Buenos Airesbut also from the general public who bought his entrance for special functions. She was acclaimed in the Berlinale, won the prize to Best Seattle Festival Film and obtained recently, among many other awards, three David di Donatello awards for Best Prima Opera, Best Original Song and Best Musical Composition.
During his visit to Buenos Aires, Vicario participated in his organized activities, both of the projections of the Festival in the Cinepolis Recoleta cinema and the special function in the Gaumont, where she was accompanied by a conversation of film and music students. “I always dreamed of coming to Argentina. It is a country that breathes art and where women are also writing new cultural and political pages. I am excited to be part, even if it is an instant, of that dialogue,” he said.
On his future and I return to music, he added: “I will definitely return to music because for me it is like having two legs, what I have always done as an actress and as music I simply cannot stop doing it. In part it is because I live on it, but what really allows me to pay my food is music. I love doing concerts, I live for them. The cinema is something I start, that I enjoy, I like it and I have projects. My immediate happiness ”.
With just 37 years, Margherita Vicario It is one of those artists who do not typecast. Owner of his own aesthetic, committed but playful, powerful but sensitive, his arrival in Buenos Aires marked one of the highest points of the festival, making it clear that Italian cinema, when he is young, brave and in a woman’s voice, has a lot to say.
