GIULIA – A wild desire for freedom – directed by Ciro De Caro and broadcast tonight on Rai Movie at 9.10 pm – It is a difficult film. The portrait of a young woman in crisis and research of a balance staff in precariousness, door Fragments from Cinéma Vérité and neorealistic shades. Among the neighborhoods of a popular Rome, Giulia has lost everything except the desire to feel free.
Giulia, The plot of the film on Rai Movie, 14 August
Rome, 2022. Giulia (Rosa Palosciano) is about 30 years old and For some time he has been looking for a new employment. Before the pandemic he worked in an underwear shop But, once the contract has expired, the activity closed due to bankruptcy. Now he continues to undergo many interviews to find stable employment. During a meeting with the managers of a company, he cannot give himself a good impression. It seems depressed and does not find the words to describe themselves. He only replies that in 5 years he dreams of a family and the sea. While waiting, he earns a few euros per day helping the residents of an elderly center.
Even private life is not a source of serenity. During the period of the Lockdown he remained to live in the same house by the ex -boyfriend Alessandro (Matteo Quinzi), even if the two have been for some time. Although it was very clear, Giulia cannot accept the end of their history And proposes to make a child. That for maternity At any cost it has become A real obsession. For some time the woman has occasional sex with men known on social media, with the hope of being pregnant.
After the result once again negative of the pregnancy test, he leaves the apartment. Without money or a place to stay, wandering the city waiting for the elderly center to open to face a new day. Arrived at the headquarters, Find out that he was temporarily closed for assemblies.
Rosa Palasciano in “Giulia” (Koch Media)
Giulia – A wild desire for freedom: how it ends
Sergio was notified the police (Valerio Di Benedetto), another volunteer who teaches drawing and reads guests books. An aspiring actor and peer of Giulia, He too unemployed. By intuuing his difficulties It hosts her in her home. Despite the desire for stability and a family unit, Giulia is a true free spirit, So much to seem to everyone A little strange and misfit.
He makes a scene in Sergio in front of his friends, accusing him of having stolen his workplace from the elderly center. Sergio is in love with in, The female neighbour But he also takes a crush on Giulia, which instead is elusive. To be with her he organizes a day at the beach. The woman cannot stand still: flirting with a Frenchman, sings a song together with street musicians and then It disappears making the hitchhiking.
At the same time, Sergio receives a worrying phone call from in and, returning home, finds her dying for attempting suicide. The moment of serenity is over for him. Giulia reaches Tuscany, And find the wild beaches described by the French. He dives into the water and looks at the dawn that is born.
The review and the cast: Rosa Palasciano
Ciro De Caro (Spaghetti story) shaped the film Together with his main interpreter. What takes shape in the dialogues and shots is a reality without discounts of thirty -year -olds, immersed in a world full of economic difficulties And frustrated aspirations. At the same time, It is the portrait of a woman with a soul divided into two, so stuck between a certain desire for stability – family and children – and the impetus of freedom, free of constraints.
Despite the goodness of the projectwhich shows itself in the directorial style of the poetics of reality and the loyalty to the truth and likely, Giulia lacks cohesion and linearity. The emotional jumps of the protagonist seem more like a schizophrenic impulse and poorly managed compared to the desire to live according to their own rules. An exhausted and inconsistent behavior that hides the real potential of the theme.
Much more The contrast between some Vacui characters is interesting and the desperate lucidity of artists and people in difficulty. In particular, they hit the trivial and circumstance of Alessandro’s sister or the former colleague of Giulia. Empty chatter of exotic and luxurious travel tales and of courtesy with roses unconsciously sported in front of those who have nothing or almost to survive.
The choice not to use any soundtrack nor musical comment, if not the notes in direct, contributes to creating in the viewer a twofold as precise sense of identification and discomfort. The cast, composed of very expressive actors and from acting without filterskeeps the desired adherence to the truth without any concession to the fiction structure. Above all, the theatrical skill of Rosa Palasciano stands out (The man from the flower in the mouth by Gabriele Lavia). Builds the personality characteristic and repeating of Giulia in a complicated and feature woman fascinating.