FUORI

Italy, France

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Synopsis

Rome, 1980. After her magnum opus The Art of Joy has been rejected by all the Italian publishers she sends it to, the writer Goliarda Sapienza ends up in prison for stealing some jewellery, but her encounter with some of the young inmates turns out to be a life-changing experience. After their release the women continue to meet. A connection no one on the outside can truly understand, but through which Goliarda rediscovers the joy of living and the impulse to write again.

Statement of the director

The summer of two friends who met in prison and their happy aimless drifting is the idea behind FUORI, which is anything but a biopic of Goliarda Sapienza. It is based on two of her books in which she mixes truth and imagination, and I did the same. I filmed in her real home, in Rome’s Rebibbia prison with the inmates, and evoked the Rome of 1980 without any reconstructions, digging in today’s city with my camera. FUORI allowed me to move unconstrained, to work on long sequences that did not necessarily have to lead to any sort of a conclusion. To let me drift as well, carried along by the wind of Goliarda Sapienza and the female protagonists of this film, Ippolita di Majo, who wrote it with me, Valeria Golino, Matilda De Angelis and Elodie.