TOMiche unexpected for over 20 years, Valeria Golino and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi are two of the most awaited Italian stars of this Venice Film Festival 2025. Often Setmates – The last opportunity was the series The art of joy directed by Golino -, they cultivated over the decades A beautiful friendship made of Cinema, books and walks together in Paris.
Valeria Golino and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi: a friendship born on the set
Golino and Bruni Tedeschi met in 1998 on the set of the film by Mimmo Calopresti The word love exists. The protagonist is Bruni Tedeschi, who divides the scene with Fabrizio Bentivoglio, partner at the time of Golino who often went to find it on the set. The friendship, however, does not explode immediately (they also live in different cities)
Instead they become inseparable in 2002, when they play together in the film Winter by Nina di Majo. A few years later, Germans calls Golino for an important role in his second director film, Actressesreleased in 2007. Occasion in which their relationship consolidates even more.
Valeria Golino and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi together with Cannes. (Getty Images)
The films shot together and the words on their bond
In the meantime, compatibly with commitments, they frequent themselves, They go to the cinema, they exchange bookscan be seen once a month in Paris: it also happens that i respective companions of the time – Louis Garrel for Brui Tedeschi and Riccardo Scamarcio for Golino – begin to attend.
In 2019, Bruni Tedeschi recalls Golino for another role in a film directed by her: The holidaymakers. Choral comedy set on the French Riviera where A woman (Bruni) gathers the whole family To spend a few days of vacation. In the film, Golino is Elena, sister of the protagonist and character freely inspired by Carla Brunitrue sister of Bruni Tedeschi.
In an interview a I woman, The two actresses thus spoke of the film and their friendship: “It is now a bond that goes beyond friendshipthere is such a familiarity that together we are free to give our worst ». With German Bruni added: «It has become part of my family. He knows my mother, my sister, my children. For this I chose it in The holidaymakers. In a film where my mother makes the mother of my character, my aunt makes my aunt, my daughter is my daughter, the actress who does her sister had to get confused with her family. “
Valeria Golino and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. (Photo by Andrea Gandini)
Valeria Golino and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi still together in I told you And The art of joy
During their long career, For the two actresses there were no other opportunities to work together. As in Paolo Virzì’s film Human capital. Or in that of Geneva Elkann entitled I told you2023 film set during a winter weekend when temperatures rise unexpectedly and the thermometer begins to mark unusual values for the period. Bruni Tedeschi is Gianna, a woman obsessed with the Pornostar Pupa (Golino) with whom the husband betrayed her.
After being guest star of the first episode of Call My Agent – Italy 2the Valerie they are back again to work together, with Bruni directed this time by Golino in the TV series The art of joy (taken from the novel of the same name by Goliarda Sapienza). Bruni Tedeschi plays Princess Gaia Brandiforti, Matriarch and widow of a noble family which welcomes the modest protagonist in his villa after the convent removal.
Together (but not with the same film) in Venice 2025
Given the relationship that binds them, Golino and Bruni Tedeschi will support each other During this 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival. Bruni Tedeschi is the protagonist of Dusefilm in competition directed by Pietro Marcello on the last part of the life and career of the legendary actress Eleonora Duse.
There are two films at the Golino Festival: Elisa by Leonardo di Costanzo – where he has a minor role – And Joy by Nicolangelo Gelormi, film in competition to the authors’ days. The latter is taken from the theatrical work If I don’t get my floor dirty And Golino plays the role of joy, a high school teacher who begins a forbidden relationship with one of his students (Saul Nanni).