TOcinema as a special event until February 16, LostMind is a documentary directed by Paolo Ruffini and Ivana De Biase dedicated to the Alzheimer’s drama. A journey through Italy delicate and movingthat the famous Tuscan actor and director undertook to tell the disease and the stories of love and affection that bind the sick and their families.
Far from the simple informative function, the doc however, avoid the path of easy emotion and pity, “Simply” tells the dramatic reality of the disease. Which affects men and women alike. And that, although confirmed only as degenerative, would have led to Monica Vitti’s death. After over 20 years of darkness.
LostMind: Alzheimer’s and Second Victims
First discovered in 1901Alzheimer’s disease causes a progressive physical and cognitive decay: loss of memory, consciousness and perception of self and reality. Currently incurable, despite the progress of science, it can nevertheless be “countered” soothing the devastating effects with love and affection.
Humanity practices that Paolo Ruffini he tells by approaching the sick and their families, the latter defined “Second victims”.
A scene from “PerdutaMente”.
They are therefore not cases of news i Lost Mind, I am love affairs with a different alignment between the feelings. They are husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters. Couples in which if the cognitive memory is slowly destroyed by the disease, the emotional one survives and continues to give hope.
The social commitment of Paolo Ruffini
Famous for its comic raids in the cinema and on TV – from Colorado to titles such as Females versus males -, for several years Ruffini has also been a director very involved in social issues. As you have shown by signing documentaries on mental illness – as Quore crazy – and on disability.
“I have not had personal contact with this drama, but I thought it was urgent to tell these stories, ”said the director during the presentation press conference. “There is a lot of talk about illness but not about health, about death but not about life while I wanted to tell the love that survives. And also for this it’s nice that it comes out on Valentine’s Day“.
The future of the film and where to see it
LostMindalways added Ruffini, «It is not a documentary pathetic, we promised all the people who shared their stories with us. However, it contains the same pop approach that I used in Up & Downa documentary that I shot with people with Down syndrome“.
Two of the protagonists of “PerdutaMente”.
After the cinema release, the film will pass on Sky, and then return to theaters in March. “My expectation is that it will be successful,” Ruffini said frankly. “He may not have the fate of Spider-Man, nor am I Tornatore, but I still want that would remain not only in the memory of those I met but of all those who want to enter this world complex, but full of love ».
The Calvary of Monica Vitti
Disappeared on February 2nd By the time she was 90, the legendary actress had now walked away from the stage due to an Alzheimer’s-like disease. The last public appearance was in 2002for the Italian premiere of Notre-Dame de Paris. Since then there have been constant reports of his health conditions, even false. As for example the hospitalization in a Swiss clinic.
Circumstance denied by her husband Roberto Russo, who instead reported as Monica had always remained in Rome – looked after by him together with a caregiver. Just why the closeness of loved onesas it also teaches us LostMind, it is a factor that makes the difference.
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