Turning 50 today, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi may very well be one of the hottest commodities in European cinema.
We Americans can get to know the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Silver Ribbon, and Tribeca Film Festival award winner really well these days as the star of Paolo Virzì’s ‘Il Capital Umano’ (Human Capital), the Italian submission to the Oscars, and of Roberto Andò’s ‘Viva La Libertà’, with Toni Servillo, both making the rounds in the US in early 2015.
She wrote, directed and starred in the bittersweet semi-autobiographical 2013 A Castle in Italy (Un Castello In Italia). Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2013 it was filmed in her family’s castle in northern Italy and also stars her real mother and former boyfriend. Filippo Timi plays her brother who in 2006 died of AIDS, exploring their close brother/sister bond and the tragedy of his death (curiously leaving out their sister, singer, songwriter, actress, model Carla Bruni Sarkozy, former first lady of France.)
She’s amazing. I think that she’s my favorite actress. That’s the first time I’ve said that out loud, and I’m pretty sure it’s true, so buon compleanno Valeria! Auuuuugggggguuurrrri!
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