CThe tears that tell more than a thousand words, and those of Lino Banfi to Sunday in they are among these. The Apulian actor, 89 years old and a career dotted with laughter, has left overwhelming from emotion during Simone Cristicchi’s performance. The singer -songwriter re -proposed on the Ariston stage the song in the race in Sanremo 2025, When you are smalla song that touches the theme of the disease and fragility of memory, a topic that Banfi knows all too well. The I remember his wife Luciadisappeared in 2023 after years of battle against Alzheimermade it impossible to hold back the cry: “This song touches me personally, I am ashamed to be in these conditions, but I am also 89 years old so let me cry».
Lino Banfi, Cristicchi’s song and the memory of Alzheimer’s sick wife
Lino Banfi and Lucia Zagaria shared 61 years of marriagea deep and indissoluble bond. The disease has changed everything, but did not scratch their love. The actor told one of the most heartbreaking moments lived with his wife: “While I feed them like small childrenasked me: “If one day I don’t recognize you anymore?” ». The comedian tried to play down, as he has always done in life: “We present ourselves again and we fall in love again”. Light words, but with an unbridgeable weight.
A song that comes straight to the heart
When you are small He did not leave indifferent. Cristicchi explained that the song is managed to combine political personalities with the antipodesfrom Giorgia Meloni to Elly Schlein. It is true, There was no shortage criticism of those who believe the song “smart” or incompletemissing that part of suffering that many caregiver They experience a dear Alzheimer’s patient.
However, the substance of a love message which cannot leave indifferent. The reaction of Lino Banfi to Cristicchi’s song is a plastic demonstration. The pain of a man who loved deeply and who, in front of a song, has relived all his story.
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