Shooting Star Alba Rohrwacher
Can they make a movie without Alba Rohrwacher?
She was Beniamina in the 2009 The Man That Will Come, and Annalisa in Nanni Moretti’s 2008 Quiet Chaos. She won a best actress David di Donatello award for her role as Giovanna Casali in the 2008 Giovanna’s Father and a best supporting actress in 2007 as Alice in Silvio Soldini’s Days and Clouds. She was nominated for best actress for her role in the 2010 The Solitude of Prime Numbers and right now she’s making a German language movie called Bliss – does this woman ever take a vacation?
I like her because she’s different – literally. She’s different from most other Italian actresses and she’s different in every role she takes. Whether she’s playing a steamy home wrecker in “Come Undone“, luring Pierfrancesco Favino away from his wife or a rich lesbian in I am Love, she’s doing it with subtlety and quiet authenticity. As much as I love Italian actresses (and you know that I do) Alba’s lack of histrionics is refreshing.
The daughter of a German beekeeper father and an Italian mother, she grew up in the country in Umbria and was studying medicine in Florence when she blew off a big exam to perform in a play – she says that night changed her life.
The Berlinale called her a shooting star (The Berlin Film Festival yearly names best young actors in Europe) in 2009 and she certainly does seem to be on a certain upward projectile.
8 Responses to “Shooting Star Alba Rohrwacher”
I think she’s wonderful. That voice. It comes to me in dreams.
Am I detecting a little crush?
I’m likely as old as her father. This reminds me that I need to watch I’ll papà di giovanna again. With the english subtitles this time. I missed a lot the first time through. Isn’t she working on a comedy now? That should be a nice change.
You mean Missione di Pace? I don’t know anything about it but I love Filippo Timi.
Soldini’s The Comander and the Stork will begin filming in Sept according to PrimoCiak. Also staring Valerio Mastandrea.
I love Soldini – and his films usually make it to US markets so he’s a little more relevant to us here in the US.
I love italian cinema and I have just discovered this blog. I have just seen “Sorelle Mia “de Marco Bellochio ,at the new road cinema festival at the Lincoln Center. Alba Rohrwacher, one of the star in the movie introduced the film. She is so charming and vert funny. I am a fan of Marco Bellochio, he is one of the best italian filmmaker.
Today,I also saw a fabulous film “Noi credevamo”… a Historical film which recalls the birth of the united italy , this film brings back the cinema of Visconti,Bertolucci and Rossellini. the film just won best picture at the Donaltello awards .
I am so jealous! My daughter lives in New York and I go frequently but I had to work this week and couldn’t make it to Open Roads. I can’t wait to read about it though. If you’d like to write about what Alba talked about I’d love to feature you in the blog.
When my husband was reading me all the people that were going to be there in person I was screaming, “No! No! No!” I would have been in heaven!