Fiction & REALITY

Linda Caridi expresses herself with a mix of grace and enthusiasm. The actress possesses a natural elegance, and clearly does not fear the vulnerability required by a theatrical monologue.

L’OFFICIEL: How did you become an actress?

I played dress up as a child, imitating my parents. I then attended a theater workshop during high school in Milan, which was so, Ferdinando Cito Filomarino’s first work about the Milanese poet Antonia Pozzi. Getting the role was a long process that began with an audition at the Chiaravalle Abbey, where Pozzi committed suicide. Before the film I only knew one of her poems—today they are part of school anthologies. Even now I hear her voice say: “Little things chisel me. Miseries corrode me.”