I’ve loved Paola Cortellesi since the first time I watched “Tu La Conosci Claudia?” with Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo. Playing Claudia, she really shows off her knack for comedy in a super cute, self-effacing way.
I must have been in a bad mood when I watched Nessun Mi Può Giudicare (Escort in Love) and wrote of it: Best Comedy? Seeing it again at New York Lincoln Center’s Open Roads, New Italian Cinema, I found myself laughing out loud. It’s really fun, and it’s exactly what I’m always complaining that Italians don’t do enough of – romantic comedies with good-looking people.
And Paola is adorable. At the Q&A, she talked about her love of comedy and making the movie. She said that it was filmed in an area of Rome that filmmakers don’t usually use (other areas of Rome are overused, IMO), and that the neighborhood really embraced them and took care of them, bringing them food and making them comfortable.
Someone in the audience asked her if she could speak to tthe problem of prostitution in Italy (some of the questions were curious) and she was very funny in her answer, leaning over, putting down her water bottle, looking very serious, and crossing her arms as if to begins a lecture on the evils of prostitution. “It is the world’s oldest profession, after all, and it’s good to put a comic light on serious subjects sometimes.”
I’ve always been a Paola Cortellesi fan, but I’m even more so, now.
One complaint: Where was Raoul Bova? Promising and not delivering the stars was pretty shady, Film Society of Lincoln Center – Not cool.
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