THEaura Morante plays Grazia Deletta in the film Almost Grace by Peter Marciaspremiered at Turin Film Festival (November 21-29). The actress, after taking on the role of the poet Alda Merini, he tries his hand at the writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Irene Maiorino and Ivana Monti also share the role at different age stages.
The film, divided into three parts, tells the life of the Sardinian writer, stubborn and tenacious, who fought against preconceptions and obstructionism in an era in which feminism and equal opportunities were abstruse words. Deledda was a modern woman, an ante litteram icon of the struggle for equal rights between men and women.
Laura Morante plays the writer Grazia Deledda, the plot of the film
Three crucial moments mark the life of Grazia Deledda (Laura Morante): the unexpected arrival of her mother (Monica Demuru) from Nuoro; the hours before she wins the Nobel Prize and the moments in which a doctor looks her in the eyes to find words that don’t hurt too much (the woman died of cancer). In the middle of, the life of the only Italian woman who won the coveted recognition. And it is by following the stages of her journey that we come to investigate both the relationship between women and literature and the female question.
Who was Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda was one of the most significant voices in Italian literature of the early twentieth centuryas well as the first and only Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, an award she received in 1927. Self-taught, born into a Sardinian bourgeois family, Deledda drew inspiration from her homeland, representing its landscape, traditions, moral conflicts and social dynamics with extraordinary sensitivity.
Laura Morante. (Getty Images)
In the his novels, often set in a rural and archaic contexta profound sense of fate and guilt emerges, central themes in his narrative. Among his most famous works are: Ashwhich was made into a film with Eleonora Duse, Reeds in the wind (1913) e The mother (1920).
Grazia Deledda icon of the fight for female emancipation
«Few female figures in the history of Sardinia can be taken as icons of the struggle for emancipation and for the conquest of equal rights between men and women like the writer Grazia Deledda”, declared the director Peter Marcias.
«A woman of letters of international caliber, but above all a great barbarian who only thanks to her stubbornness and tenacity managed to establish itself in an era in which feminism and equal opportunities were abstruse concepts. He fought successfully against preconceptions and obstructionism due also and above all to her being a modern woman.”