Princess
11 May 2023 | 15:00
Sala Hera — Cinema Astra
Princess is a Nigerian sex worker and the wood next to the motorway is her kingdom, which she fiercely defends from competitor girls. She’s nineteen, she has a colored wig for each mood and a name for each customer. Like girls of her age, she dreams a bright future and a love that could take her away from the edge she lives in. Princess’ resilient and obstinate vitality animates Roberto De Paolis’ second movie, which is unexpectedly eager of going beyond reality and having a look at it through an adolescent sight. Through the degradation of sex working and the fractious sisterhood bounding the protagonists – who are not, for the majority, professional actresses and have lived on their own skin the sorrow of human-trade – the movie (competing in the section Orizzonti of the 79th Mostra del Cinema di Venezia) is a gentle coming of age that reports a struggling social condition with a fair balance between realism and humor.
Produced by: Young Films, Indigo Film, Rai Cinema
Cast: Glory Kevin, Lino Musella, Sandra Osagie, Salvatore Striano, Maurizio Lombardi
Regia di Roberto De Paolis
110'
Italia
2022
Filmmaker, screenplayer, producer and photographer. Born in Rome, he studied cineam at the London FIlm School. After the direction of some short-movies, in 2013 he founded, together with Carla Altieri, the Young Films. In 2017 he signs his first movie, Cuori Puri, which was presented at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs del Festival di Cannes and that was nominated for David di Donatello as Miglior Opera Prima. Princess is his second movie, and it was selected as opening movie, in competition, for the section Orizzonti of the 79th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia.