Try it yourself, to have a movie face, a movie look, a movie talent, a movie life. Girl targeted, too tall, too beautiful, raised far from her father, too much of everything. A face and a figure that are an entire compendium of Italian cinema. In the list of the best actresses of 2020 drawn up by New York Times she appears, Donna Sophia. We wish a happy birthday to Sophia Loren, who turns 20 on 87 September, of which more than seventy lived in the spotlight. From his debut at age 15 to a beauty contest, up to his interpretation in the film by Edoardo Ponti (his son) Life ahead of him, which earned her a David di Donatello in 2021.
Sophia, the genesis of a great Italian actress
Sophia Loren, who adds the ph and the international surname, to the registry is Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone, born in Rome and lived in Pozzuoli. A diva who is not frightened by anything and is not trapped in any role. After having played mostly commoners, full of wit and sensuality, at 25 she plays a mother, Cesira, in a film that is the tragic cross-section of the history of this country: Two Women. It is a courageous film, signed by Vittorio De Sica, based on a novel by Alberto Moravia. Not a small detail, this of a young age, because 25 years are very few, and it is in that intense, tragic, shivering role that Sophia Loren demonstrates immense talent, transformative capacity and passion for her work. .
Sophia Loren, the first Italian actress to receive an Oscar
Loren is an out of the ordinary interpreter, yet so apparently, simple, credible, unsettling. She defines herself with just one sentence: "I owe everything you see to spaghetti", He says. Vittorio De Sica's eye recognizes it, their partnership is rare, precious. With the famous director who is the symbol of neorealism, Sophia Loren plays eight films, many alongside Marcello Mastroianni. For Sophia Loren's birthday, we like to remember that with Two Women, not only wins a slew of extraordinary prizes - among them, the Oscar - but is the first Italian actress to win the Oscar. In the film, she and her daughter who grew up too fast, wandering through the rubble of World War II, remain an image of strength and hope. Trying to summarize Sophia Loren's career is next to impossible. One of the actresses best known and loved Italians in the world, a symbol of Italianness.
The birthday of an international star
In 1957 she married the producer Carlo Ponti by proxy, a very long marriage that lasted until his death in 2007. Sophia crosses the memory of Italy. An irrepressible physicality and a great soul. Here it is in Bread, love and ... while trying to seduce Vittorio De Sica, alias Marshal Carotenuto, at the pace of Mambo, or in Yesterday Today and Tomorrow, where he remains in the collective imagination, in an unsurpassed strip tease, in front of a seduced and happy Mastroianni (scene later recalled by Robert Altman, in Ready-to-wear). Or the amazing, understood and unforgettable Filomena Marturano, in the film Italian wedding by Vittorio De Sica, from 1964. International star, Charlie Chaplin's latest muse in The Countess of Hong Kong alongside Marlon Brando,
Without a trickle of makeup in A special day by Ettore Scola, as well as in the last, powerful interpretation, Rosa, ne Life ahead of him, where she appears with her hair whitened, a little distracted. Immense. Fragile and human. Able to give us yet another lesson in style: to mature with grace, to remind us that a star shines with its own light and we viewers just have to admire it. Wonderful Happy Birthday Sophia.
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