Fortunata

Synopsis

Fortunata has a difficult life, she’s the mother of an eight year old daughter with a failed marriage behind her. She works as a hairdresser in people’s houses, leaving from the outskirts to cross the city, going to the homes of the well-off to do women’s hair. Fortunata fights every day with determination to achieve her dream: opening her own salon and challenging fate, in an attempt to emancipate herself and gain her independence and the right to some happiness. She knows that to achieve her dreams she has to be firm: she has thought of everything, she is ready for anything, but she had not considered the variable of love, the one subversive force capable of sweeping aside every certainty. Also because, perhaps for the first time, someone looks at her as the woman she is and truly loves her.

Biography

Actor, screenwriter and director, Sergio Castellitto has appeared in a number of major European films such as The Family by Ettore Scola, The Big Blue by Luc Besson, The Star Maker by Giuseppe Tornatore, The Great Pumpkin by Francesca Archibugi, Who Knows? by Jacques Rivette, Caterina in the Big City by Paolo Virzì, The Missing Star by Gianni Amelio, The Wedding Director and My Mother’s Smile by Marco Bellocchio, Mostly Martha by Sandra Nettlebeck, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by Andrew Adamson.In the last few years he has dedicated himself to direction, with the following films: YOU CAN'T SAVE YOURSELF ALONE (2015); TWICE BORN (2012); LOVE AND SLAPS (2010); DON'T MOVE (2004) - Presented at Festival de Cannes - Un certain Regard; Libero Burro (1998).

Filmography:

2015 YOU CAN’T SAVE YOURSELF ALONE
2012 TWICE BORN
2010 LOVE AND SLAPS
2004 DON’T MOVE
1998 LIBERO BURRO