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Type: thriller, bildungsroman
Director: Cosima Spender and Valerio Bonelli. With Antonia Truppo, Filippo Nigro, Alessia De Falco, Giada Savi, Giada Pirozzi, Federica Cuomo, Eva Iurlaro, Catinca Petrescu. On Paramount+
The young gymnasts of the sports series “Corpo libero” (photo by Mario Spada).
Harsh, toxic, ruthless. The world of artistic gymnastics, which the chronicles of these weeks are returning in all its ambiguity, also finds its successful interpretation in the screenplay. It is the case of Free bodyoriginal series of Paramount+, the latest arrival among streaming platforms.
It’s never easy to come up with a serial story about sport and its competitive practices, but more and more often sport becomes the ideal setting in which to pigeonhole stories that bring out other themes.
A scene from the TV series on Paramount+ “Corpo libero” (photo by Mario Spada).
Adaptation of the novel by Ilaria Bernardini, Free body is an Italian series made in international co-production with Zdf and All3Media, an ambitious and extremely current operation. The protagonist is a group of teenagers from the Vis Invicta team, who reach the mountains of Abruzzo for a prestigious race; among them Martina (Alessia De Falco), who returned to the team at the last minute after a heavy injury.
The series opens with a murder mystery and a narrative that proceeds in search of the truth between low blows, silence and lies involving the teammates, the coach and the team doctor. Free body it’s many things: thriller, teen, bildungsroman, denunciation. It’s a moral slap where innocent people don’t seem to see each other.
For those who appreciate sport as a narrative device of the traumas of society.
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