Angelina Jolie e Alessandro Bariccoguests of Turin Film Festivalthey told how it was born “Without Blood”film written, directed and produced (with Fremantle) by the actress, adaptation of the short novel “Without blood” of 2002 by the Italian writer.
From Without Blood to Without Blood: how the film was born
Angelina Jolie, in some statements reported by Corriere della Serahe said: “I have been an admirer of Alessandro for a long timewrites almost like a director, with such clarity, and in cinematic language. I tried to stay as faithful as possible to the original writing. It is a study in the humanity of each of us.”
Baricco added: “Angelina wrote me an emailit was like I got it from Jessica Rabbit or Mickey Mouse, I didn’t believe it existed. It was the most beautiful text I read in terms of understanding, sweetness, intelligence. I keep it as one of the most beautiful letters received in my life“.
Angelina Jolie and Alessandro Baricco at the Turin Film Festival.
The meeting in Los Angeles between Angelina Jolie and Alessandro Baricco
Angelina Jolie and Alessandro Baricco met for the first time in Los Angeles, at the actress’s home. The writer said: “She made everything easy. She started cooking a plate of spaghetti“.
Angelina Jolie’s memory: “An American cooking spaghetti for an Italian, do you realise? I had an attitude of great humility, I tried to listen to the written pages and to enter Alessandro’s mind, on the questions of the book and their complexity. There are no good or bad people here.”
The plot of the book Without Blood by Baricco and the film Without Blood
The plot of the book “Senzablood” by Baricco is as follows: “Manuel Roca and his two children live in an old isolated farmhouse in the countryside. One day four men in an old Mercedes take the dusty road that leads to their house. As if he had always been waiting for this moment, Manuel Roca doesn’t waste a moment and calls his two children to him. Something terrible and indescribable is about to happen; something that will irreparably upset everyone’s life, especially that of little Nina.”
On the film “Without Blood”, at the event in Turin, Alessandro Baricco said: “Books need to disappear in moviesyou just have to breathe cinema, forget that there was a novel before. It is a work by Angelina Jolie, and that is how it must be experienced. But in the film there is a color, which is mine.”
Baricco again, on the first time on the set of “Without Blood”: “Angelina showed us a piece of the already edited film under a dark curtain. We were all moved“.
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Source: notizie.virgilio.it
