Italian actor-director Sergio
Castellitto's tale of a salt-of-the-earth Roman hairdresser,
Fortunata, wowed the Cannes Film Festival Sunday.
The film, competing in the Un Certain Regard section, tells
the tale of the plain-talking hairdresser's pursuit of her
dream, to open a salon all of her own called Lucky.
Fortunata is played by Jasmine Trinca, who pulls out all the
stops in the picture of a feisty character separated from her
husband and with an eight-year-old daughter, in the Roman
suburbs of Torpignatara and Centocelle.
Castellitto, who directed from a script written by himself
and his novelist wife Margaret Mazzantini, dodged criticism of
the film as celebrating an idealised "popolare (working class)"
world, saying "'popolare' is a very beautiful word".
The film also stars Stefano Accorsi.
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