Four seasons. A centrifuge of episodes that you would never think were real (instead they are, like attending the funeral of the wrong deceased) mixed with fictional paradoxes, which oscillate between the Sanremo stage and the classrooms of the Centro Sperimentale in Rome.
With the television series Life as Carlothe actor and director Carlo Verdone plays at putting his own life into fiction, between the public and private scene, idiosyncrasies, joys, selfies too many, pretentious fans, intrusive relatives, fraternal friends, lost and found loves, successes and disappointments at work. He plays with reality a little, fictionalizing it, and reveals it a little.
It doesn’t take stock or incense itself and, at the end of this long ride (the new season available from November 28 on the Paramount+ platform is the final one), what remains is perhaps the last thing one would expect from an autobiography: a look of tenderness towards reality.
No matter how tiring it is to live (and it is even for a successful man like Verdone, as can be seen from episode to episode, between the serious and the facetious), the director maintains a loving gaze towards life. The same one that his mother cultivated: «A simple woman, who had gone to school with nuns and from whom she had received a solid education», recalls Verdone. “She was such a good and respectable person that every time I have a doubt I ask myself what she would have done in my place, and I act accordingly.”
Is Vita da Carlo the biography of a man hopelessly in love with life? «Tenderness has always been part of my view of the world. Of course, when I read all those horrible crimes that the news reports every day now, it’s tough: a deep sadness invades me. However, every time I can’t help but wonder what education these people have received, what family they have behind them to be able to perform certain gestures. They probably haven’t developed any sensitivity: the social context is also to blame”…
Read the complete interview with Carlo Verdone in the issue of Credere distributed in newsstands and religious bookshops from Thursday 27 November and in parishes from Saturday 29 November. Or purchase a digital copy www.edicolasanpaolo.it
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