C‘It’s a special bond, almost like a novel, between Matilda De Angelis And Luc Besson. We saw them complicit and smiling, guests a What’s the weather like and on the red carpet of the Rome Film Festival, to present their highly anticipated new film, Dracula – Lost Love (in theaters October 29). But their collaboration goes beyond the professional meeting between a cult director and one of the most talented and awarded Italian actresses of her generation: it is a closing circlea story that began many years ago thanks to Matilda’s mother.
Matilda De Angelis: name, mother, Luc Besson
Why is Matilda De Angelis called that? It was the actress herself who revealed the exciting anecdote. His mother chose that name because it was deeply in love with the protagonist of one of Besson’s masterpiecesthe cult Leon (1994). This is the very young “Mathilda” (played by an unforgettable Natalie Portman in her debut), the twelve-year-old who forms a unique bond with the protagonist hitman. The emotion was uncontrollable when, right in Rome, the actress’s mother finally met the director. «The other evening at the Rome Film Festival finally my mother met Luc Besson, they hugged and she cried, so now my life is perfect!» said Matilda.
A fairytale moment, which combines private life and dazzling professional success. After winning a David di Donatello, two Silver Ribbons and having become a Knight of the Republic, for Matilda De Angelis working with the director who “inspired” her name takes on an even more magical flavour.
Dracula – Lost Lovea gothic tale about eternal love
But what awaits us in Dracula – Lost Love? Certainly not the classic horror: Luc Besson’s vision is a romantic melodrama and visionary. The story begins in the 15th century, when Prince Vladimir (played by Caleb Landry Jones) loses his beloved wife Elisabeta (Zoe Bleu) and, by denying God, condemns himself to a cursed immortality. Centuries later, in nineteenth-century Paris, he finds the reincarnation of his wife in Mina. In the stellar cast, in addition to Matilda De Angelis in the role of Maria, also stands out Christoph Waltz in the role of an enigmatic priest, for a gothic fairy tale about eternal love.
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