Lucky

I'm happy because I know that even if everything will go bad or wrong, there will always be someone by my side to protect my heart and love me and caress me when I need it: my family, Andrea, my true friends. I'm lucky.

Guess the film!

1. I have her secret deep within for years I've had to hide I've bought the clues And now I'm hope To bring the truth outside 2. I wait I wait so patiently I'm as quiet as a cup I hope you'll come and rattle me Quick! Come wake me up. 3. The dye is cast The dice are rolled I feel like shit you look like gold.

Seize the day!

Have you ever had the feeling you're going to lose something? In these days this thing has come to me in such a strong way, even by talking with people or listening lessons at University...

For example, during Italian Literature lesson our teacher told about Lorenzo il Magnifico, Angelo Poliziano and Giambattista Marino (we're analysing a series of poems from 1400 to Eighteenth Century in the stylistic point of view, and all that stuff), who wrote verses that suggest life last not forever, and invite the readers (or the listeners, most of them were put into music) to take the chance, seize the day, as Latins said: Carpe diem! And also during English Literature, while reading one of Andrew Marvell's poems ("To his coy mistress"), Mrs. Rose reminded us that nice film directed by Peter Weir, "Dead Poets Society" (L'attimo fuggente), which is one of my favourite movies, with Robin Williams who plays the role of a talented, charismatic teacher in a prep-school really loved by his students, that revive a literar club of the past. Nice to see, so moving, I suggest you to watch it once in a lifetime! I wanna post a famous refrain, taken from "Trionfo di Bacco e Arianna" by Lorenzo de' Medici, probably written in 1490, I hope you will tell me what you think about this idea of a life that must me caught as fast as possible, because it'll fly away in a moment: Quant'è bella giovinezza Che si fugge tuttavia! Chi vuol esser lieto, sia: Di doman non c'è certezza. How beautiful our Youth is That’s always flying by us! Who’d be happy, let him be so: Nothing’s sure about tomorrow.

I sing you to me

Last night I saw "Australia", the latest film directed by Baz Luhrmann, with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, which was told to be the new "Gone with the wind", but personally I found them very different. In the beginning I didn't understand anything about the properties and the plots, but then, in the course of the events, I fell in love with the story of the characters, especially with Nahlla, the native Australian, a little boy with sparkling eyes and a sweet, sweet tenderness.

Nicole Kidman , who played the role of Lady Sarah Ashley, was -as ever- perfect, though sometimes she doesn't act very well; Hugh Jackman was really handsome in this film! As soon as I saw him in one of the first scenes I figured out he was a strong character (he played as the Drover), and also an ironic one. He acted very well, he smiled and cried in a way which seemed real.

I missed so much Baz Luhrmann' style... I don't know, I thought it would be a little like Moulin Rouge! or Romeo+Juliet, with all that fantastic details, the colours and the camera-movements (certainly this expression is more an Italian on than an English one!), little treasures... Maybe this film was more epic, more prodigious, a real kolossal, it seemed quite bare to me. But this is only an impression! Have you ever seen it?

Grey time

Today I'm a little bit discouraged.

I will kiss thy mouth

SALOME: [Holding the severed head of Iokanaan.] Ah! thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan. Well! I will kiss it now. I will bite it with my teeth as one bites a ripe fruit. Yes, I will kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan. I said it; did I not say it? I said it. Ah! I will kiss it now. But wherefore dost thou not look at me, Iokanaan? Thine eyes that were so terrible, so full of rage and scorn, are shut now. Wherefore are they shut? Open thine eyes! Lift up thine eyelids, Iokanaan! Wherefore dost thou not look at me? Art thou afraid of me, Iokanaan, that thou wilt not look at me? [From "Salomè", Oscar Wilde]

I touch your hand and my arms grow strong

In those days, I listen to a special song every now and again, because her delicate melody touches me somewhere inside.

It is called "Younger than springtime" and it is from the film "South Pacific", that it has been staged as a musical many times (in one of them, Matthew Morrison, alias Mr. Schue, played the main character).

It made me think about the feelings I feel for my true love, Andrea. If I close my eyes, listening to this song, I'd be able to see him smiling, and this image make me strong and more self-confident when I'm away in Milan, and I see al those beautiful girls that seem like top-models and I feel like shit. I know that there is someone who is thinking about me and loving me, and it feels perfectly happy.

I just wanted to write this on my blog because it is my paper. And my fingers are my pen. And the words are my heart and soul. I know I sound sentimental, but that's the best part of my life, and I'm living it now, so why not write it?

LOL: Laughing Out Loud

Today I'm gonna write down a short review of a film, I'm too tired to think about something now, I just want to write something, because I can't stand not to write anything, it could seem that my life is slipping away through the days without a trace, a sense.

Saturday night I watched a French film called "L.O.L.", with Sophie Marceau and many young, brilliant actors. It dealed with youth and all that it concerns, crazy thing, parties, drugs, love, hate, arguments with parents and all that stuff, and it was good, even though I didn't finish to see it, it was a little late for my standards to keep being awake.

That film remind me somehow all that I've never done in my high school time, all the experiences I should have had in those times and other things. Also the look of the guys and girls of the film were fantastic: that is my kind of style, even if I don't wear that well, but I feel that indie clothes describe me quite well. Or better, a part of me. I don't know. Maybe I'm not supposed to know how I really am, I just "am".

However, I love Sophie Marceau (not just because we've got the same name), her acting is so natural, so real-like that she seems not to be acting! That role suited her, I think.

Well, L.O.L. was a good film to see, after the slight comedy "Raising Helen" with Kate Hudson, which I adore, and a beautiful John Corbett. To see again. Both of them.

Remember me

The film was very moving. I want to see it again! Not just because the main character is played by Robert Pattinson (who is handsome, must be confessed), but I cried a lot in the cinema because of the character of her youngest sister.

Sometimes I felt like her, when I was younger. I felt strange, not understood, different from the others. I always felt like that and I don't know why, maybe because of a sort of inferiority complex, maybe at the opposite I felt superbly more cultivated or passionate than my school-mates. I don't know.

However, certainly I didn't suffer the wicked actions that the little, hateful girls in her class made to Caroline. It's just terrible, many things stay in your mind like they've pressed there violently. In that scene -the one in which we see Caroline's hair half cut, with any doubt by her classmates- I cried a lot. It's just like they've taken away a part of you, we females know this.

Ruby Jerins's character striked me. But also the thing about Tyler (Pattinson) and his father (Pierce Brosnan) firstly made me angry, then moved me. This is the magic of cinema, when it talks about and it shows realities like these. They make you understand more about lives and relationships and what's really important in life.

In his eyes

Tonight I'm gonna see "Remember me" at the cinema, maybe alone, but it's quite exciting, isn't it? Alone in the dark shadows of the place, sitting on a cozy red seat, enjoying the film in peace.

No one around to see you cry or laugh or any other expression in your face, just sitting and let the catharsis work on you.

I seize the day to thank my love Andrea: today are 13 months together, the best in my life. I love you so much!

The picture is quite perfect, isn't it? You and me, smiling, next to each other, like Robert Pattinson and Emily de Ravin.

"In his eyes I can see where my heart longs to be. [...] Now I realize, everything worth living for is there, in his eyes." (from the Jekyll&Hyde Musical)

The best is yet to come

Dedicated to you.

I can see it in your eyes and feel it in your touch I know that you're scared but you've never been this loved It's a long shot, baby, I know it's true, But if anyone can make it, I'm betting on me and you Just keep on moving in to me I know you're going to see The best is yet to come Don’t fear it now; we're going all the way Where the sun is shining on a brand new day It's a long way down, and it's a leap of faith But I’m never giving up, 'cause I know we got a once in a lifetime love Everybody's looking for what we've found Some wait their whole lives and it never comes around So don’t hold back now, Just let go of all you’ve ever known And put your hand in mine Don’t fear it now; we're going all the way Where the sun is shining on a brand new day It's a long way down, and it's a leap of faith But I’m never giving up, 'cause I know we got a once in a lifetime love I close my eyes and I see you standing right there Saying “I do” and they’re throwing rice in our hair Then the first one’s born, then a brother comes along and he’s got your smile I’ll be looking back at the life we had still at your side So don't fear it now; we're going all the way Where the sun is shining on a brand new day It's a long way down, and it's a leap of faith But I’m never giving up, 'cause I know we got a once in a lifetime love

Ideas spinning through my mind

I think I'm going to write another blog, only about Art in the strict meaning: paintings, architecture, sculpture, photograph, illustration and so on. There are so many range and subjects to write about... If I could write down all I've got in my head, this blog would be blocked! So I'll think up something. ^__^

If you want to follow me there, just wait a little few days and I'll come back with something: Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelites, Rubens, Klimt, Moreau, Goro Fujita, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Andy Paciorek, Tim Burton, Damien Hirst...

Maybe I've always been fond of art, that's why I chose to attend the Liceo Artistico, that I finished last year. Now I'm studying languages and literature, other passions of mine. The bridge from my culture to others.

But I never abandoned art, even though I haven't got time enough to draw or use my pastels, but I have a scrapbook somewhere (I have to find it) and sometimes in my journeys to and from Milan I scribble little characters. I will post them. Here or on the new blog. Help me finding a proper title of the blog, any advice is well appreciated!

"No Day But Today" at Livorno!

Italy has fallen in love with Rent, finally!

In Livorno will be on stage "No Day But Today", an adaptation from the musical by Jonathan Larson with songs in the original language and the dialogues in Italian, made up by Il Nido del Cuculo, an association whose leader is Paolo Ruffini, an Italian (sooo Tuscan!!) comical actor. It will be at the Teatro Quattro Mori of Livorno on 9, 10, 11, 12 of April at 9.30 p.m. (tickets available online. I wish I could go there and cry again on the notes of the most moving musical - according to my heart.

Unfortunately I cannot go because of the distance (not very distant at all, but enough for my pocket), but if you have the occasion, go there! How much I envy the cast!!!

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L'Italia si è innamorata di Rent, finalmente!

A Livorno sarà in teatro "No Day But Today", adattamento dal musical scritto da Jonathan Larson con canzoni in lingua e dialoghi in italiano, realizzato dall'associazione Il Nido del Cuculo, fondata da Paolo Ruffini, l'attore comico toscanaccio dagli occhi azzurrissimi. Sarà al Teatro Quattro Mori di Livorno il 9, 10, 11, 12 aprile alle 21.30 (i biglietti sono disponibili online). Quanto vorrei poter andare lì ed emozionarmi ancora sulle note del più commovente musical, o almeno per me.

Purtroppo non potrò andare a causa della distanza (non è molto distante, ma abbastanza per le mie tasche!), ma se avete l'occasione, andateci! Quanto invidio il cast!!!

Can Art change the world? I think so

All my life I loved movies, and I'm sure I will always do. Even if most of them are fiction, fantastic and better than real world, I still believe in the ideals of directors like Baz Luhrmann (my favourite, he's a romantic genius) who was able to create wonders as "Moulin Rouge!", "Romeo+Juliet", "Australia", or Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam, whose talent and imagination know no boundaries.

I don't believe in God, but I believe in Life, and in Emotions. I've got a Conscience and a Heart, Blood runs through my veins, I breathe the Air around me and I smell the parfumes of Nature. I see with my eyes all that surrounds me and my mind dreams even when I'm awake.

I'm a dreamer, but I'm not that half-wit. I know there are things that must be changed, but I think that Art is important (as Nicole Kidman said when she got the Oscar for "The Hours"), because there needs true and good ideals to be taught in the world, otherwise violence and coldhearted indifference will darken all that's good and beautiful. Here it comes to my mind scenes and quotes from "Avatar", the colossal movie by James Cameron, that carried hope but also pointed out that a similar destiny could be that of our planet.

We live in times where quite nobody read books anymore, boys and girls who are just a few years younger than me (I'm 19-going on 20) don't think nowhere near about reading classic novels, they don't even know who were Dickens, Balzac, Stevenson or Goethe, if they don't study them at school or there's not a movie about them. It's frightening. Movies and TV must educate people! They are the last resort.

Through Art people can send out a message to other people, sugar the pill with romantic plots or satirical screenplays, but let the idea flies and alight on thoughts.

And that's what I long to do in my Life. Pursue my dreams and never lose optimism, trying to reach people' sensibility with Music, Art and Films. And Culture.

- What do you think about it?