Cannes Film Festival 2025: Fuori in Competition, a Film Tribute to Writer Goliarda Sapienza

This 78th edition sees many stars walk the red carpet. Earlier in the evening, the cast of the film « Private Life » dazzled the photographers. Jodie Foster, wearing Boucheron jewelry, and Virginie Efira, who opted for a Saint Laurent gown, both made a splash.

Now it was the turn of the Italian cast of the feature film « Fuori » to take to the red carpet. Flanked by his actors, director Mario Martone posed in a black suit by Giorgio Armani. The film’s cast includes Valeria Golino, who plays the lead role, Matilda De Angelis, and singer Elodie Di Patrizi, who wore a Prada gown. Also present tonight were actor Corrado Fortuna and the screenwriter and director’s wife, Ippolita Di Majo.

Naomi Campbell drew all eyes. The model walked the red carpet in an extraordinary gown by Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana, from the Alta Moda 2025 Couture collection, to attend the premiere of Fuori, a biographical film about anarchist writer Goliarda Sapienza, directed by Mario Martone.

Mario Martone’s Fuori is a tribute to the Sicilian writer and actress, born in Catania.
An illuminating film about the personality of Goliarda Sapienza, a great figure of Italian literature who was imprisoned for theft.

Director Mario Martone is in the running for a Palme d’Or with a film that pays homage to the writer Goliarda Sapienza, whose book The Art of Joy was first published in Germany and France (2005, Viviane Hamy) several years after her death.

The manuscript of this transgressive, poetic, and feminist work was rejected by all the major Italian publishers. It was self-published by her husband, Angelo Pellegrino, in 1996, the year of Goliarda Sapienza’s death at the age of 70.

Portrait of Goliarda Sapienza, a Sicilian writer and daughter of two leading figures of the Italian left, director Mario Martone has chosen to focus on a small slice of her life: A Summer in Rome. It’s the 1980s, and Goliarda Sapienza (Valeria Golino) had finished writing her novel several years earlier, but it hadn’t found a buyer.

She ticked more of the boxes of our time and is now considered one of the great Italian writers of the 20th century. Her fame is posthumous.

The Art of Joy was discreetly published in Italy after her death. The book was then rediscovered and successfully reissued in 2005 by Éditions Viviane Hamy in France, which revived her reputation beyond the Alps.

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