“Me and them”, five women and their revolutions, represented by five actresses (score 7 and 1/2) – Corriere.it

The series dedicated to the female universe, on behalf of five women who have each revolutionized their field, is trivially titled “Me and Her”, like a very old variant of newborn television in which Taranto and Delia Scala were all the rage. But here, in this interesting production by Sky Arte (also streaming on Now), now in its second season, the I and she refer to the names of the five historical protagonists, one “divine” and four other earthlings, and coupled with the actress who represents her here today, a challenge that transcends the passage of time and fashions: Carolina Crescentini is Gabriella Ferri, Camilla Filippi is Giulietta Masina, Cristiana Dell’Anna is Tina Modotti, Valeria Bilello is Elsa Schiaparelli, Sonia Bergamasco is Isadora Duncan and the latter is the more attractive merger.

Five protagonists of cultural history: a singer, an Oscar-winning actress, a photographer, a stylist and finally a dancer, each in their own way revolutionized their era and turned the tables, impressing and anticipating the fashions to come, and sometimes personally footing the bill. Let’s say the most famous is Masina, never named Giulietta Fellini, immortalized by her husband like Gelsomina, Cabiria, Giulietta degli Spiriti or Ginger; the most sophisticated is Isadora Duncan, born in San Francisco in 1877 and died in Nice, France, strangled to death by her long scarf in a car in 1927, as can also be seen in the beautiful film dedicated to her by Karel Reisz with Vanessa Redgrave; the most cosmopolitan is Elsa Schiaparelli, the first international stylist physically and psychologically based in Paris, loved by Cocteau and Dalì, star of that crazy and wonderful era on the Seine, and today she has a niece named Marisa Berenson; the most popular is Ferri, a rough and Roman voice, used to screaming in the streets of Trastevere, but later quit out of snobbery and celebrated by all for her skills, often shown on television; the most cultural is Tina Modotti, a world-famous photographer (Cristiana Dell’Anna is in charge of illustrating her), a tireless traveler, author of thousands of photos, each showing a piece of the world divided between Italy ( she became Italy in 1846 born in Udine, he died in Mexico in 1942), the United States and Germany.

Internationally known women who push boundaries imposed by the so-called “convenience”. Just think of Isadora, who sees dance as a kind of sanctification of the female body (“dance and forget”), a highly transgressive performer endowed with a great vital freedom that is accepted around the world for being Dionysian Drawing inspiration from ancient Greece, who suffered the loss of three children and had human contacts with other artists such as Eleonora Duse. Bergamasco, as a refined actress that she is, courts the character without ever being tempted to completely remake her, but approaches and distances equally, but with her mysterious gaze she gives us the keys to interpret her mysteries and hidden modernity (think of a meeting between her and Pina Bausch): Sonia’s veils in the wind are unforgettable. La Masina was everyone’s friend, a seemingly simpler character but not fragile, as suggested by the demeanor of a middle-class wife with the superego of a great actress, a combination that miraculously holds together, as in the hypnosis scene of the “Nights of”. Cabiria”. “. Masina was Fellini’s muse, she was Chaplin in a skirt, but Camilla Filippi explains her physicality and the human factor that made her so popular with the common people, as well as her temperament as a mother hen in the family born near Bologna and then became Roman since I was a kid without ever losing love for the roots.

The one who tries the identification process the mostA real siren for the actresses is Carolina Crescentini, who also “becomes” Gabriella Ferri out of love, a screamer friend to everyone “whose broken voice is fishing in the abyss,” a heartbreaking mix of tears and laughter, even at Interventions by ex-boyfriends like Renzo Arbore, who tells it very truthfully. She was a strong, vital woman who could get her hands dirty with anything while rediscovering her past time over and over again.

The series is well done because every part He stops at the costume designer, who explains how and why to choose a dress that fits that personality, then the makeup artist, who recommends eyeliner and advises on how to sometimes make makeup irresistible. Perhaps least known to non-tailors was Elsa Schiaparelli, believed to be the true first stylist in history, narrated very well and with an inquiring attitude by Valeria Bilello. The fashion artist, very personal in the dynamic structures of the clothes and in their colors, born in Rome in 1890 and died of natural causes in Paris in 1973, is described as an elegant psychologist of the female soul with a real revolution in the way of dressing and then to ” appear”.