Cannes 2025: “Fuori” is worth it

So this is what rushes into Mario Martone 's new feature film? The art of joy, we are told, or the joy of art. Something that in any case overflows the nature of the biopic film, exceeds what can be factually said of its synopsis and enlivens it with a romantic fluidity, a sensoriality that warms—even regenerates—on the eighth day of the festival while apocalyptic downpours have fallen on Cannes. Fuori means outside in Italian. And it zigzags in the enchanted clarity of a summer in Rome in the 1980s, between the voids and the fullness of a passionate friendship that is difficult to describe, formed in the women's prison of Rebibbia. Yes, it will indeed be a question of evoking a short period in the life of the Sicilian writer Goliarda Sapienza , a free intellectual and anarchist of the 20th century, bisexual, author of an international bestseller that remained cursed during her lifetime, The Art of