V.ATICAN GIRL: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF EMANUELA ORLANDI
Genre: documentary, historical
Direction: Mark Lewis. With Haley Veres, Pietro Orlandi, Natalina Orlandi. On Netflix
“We will never stop looking for my sister.” Anticipated by a viral campaign – which saw Rome invaded by old-style posters, similar to the real ones circulating at the time – a docu-series destined to cause discussion has landed on Netflix: Vatican Girl: the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi is a product that rekindles the lights on one of the most controversial mysteriesthat of the disappearance of the young Emanuela Orlandi, daughter of a Vatican employee, whose traces were lost on June 22, 1983.
The words on the “new” posters are those of Pietro Orlandi, the girl’s brother, who appears in the series as one of the interviewees. Vatican Girl is a journey of four episodes that combines narrative suspense and the rigor of the investigation (it is also based on VatiLeaks revelations), according to a trait that the platform has been experiencing for some time also with respect to more recent news cases.
Federica Orlandi, sister of Emanuela, in “Vatican girl”
Conceived and written by Mark Lewis, it uses the testimonies of different personalitiesincluding the journalist Andrea Purgatori (who performs in English, the original language of the documentary), an expert on the most murky Italian mysteries.
Vatican Girl stages the imponderable, the disbelief of an alleged international intrigue around a 15-year-old girl. A TV series story that unfortunately is real and still to be solved.
For those who love true crime documentaries in the serial construction of binge-watching.
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