Valentina Romanias well Waist To the costume movie with Nicolas Maupas: the new heroine of our imagination.
There is a precise moment in which one realizes that Valentina Romani it is no longer “That of the sea outside”. Happens looking at Waistthe 2025 revelation TV series directed by Giuseppe Bonito. It happens even more when you see it in the role of Beatricethe Russian spy who animates to the festival of the Revolution, the costume film of Arnaldo Catinari expected in rooms by the end of the year. Two very different roles, two distant narrative times, a single denominator: the magnetic ability of Romans to impose itself as a central female face in narratives dominated by tormented men. In Waistinterpreta It’s Coenvice -speaking of the police transferred to Bari from Rome, a lucid, uncompromising, deeply empathic figure.
A character written with intelligence and respect, who does not need the plot only to romanticize the protagonist, but to keep up with him. Gerri Esposito, played by Giulio Alekis the inspector of Roma origin with a past that still burns them under the skin. LeaHowever, he does not let himself be dazzled by his torment. He looks at him, he studies him, challenges him. And with him he builds a relationship made of respect, silences that weigh and small cracks. Valentina Romani, at the press conference, spoke of Lea as di “A woman who saves herself, even when she falls in love”. And this sentence is enough to understand how much the character has hit the mark.
Valentina Romani After Waist: costume movie with a crazy cast, what to expect
But it is with At the festival of the Revolution that Romans performs the final waste. Forget the uniforms and commissioners. Beatrice It is an enigma between the sheets of history, a spy at the service of raised Russia in Rijeka during the Dannunzian company of 1919. To give her the emotional and political counterfather there is Nicolas Maupas, who plays Giulio, a former soldier and anarchist, one who has deserted more truths than trenches in life. Their relationship is made of touches, ideological clashes and an impossible love that is consumed in a city on the verge of exploding. The film, produced by Italian International Film with Rai Cinemait is a great historical fresco that knows of revolution and desire, of tension and utopia. All with vintage costumes sewn made to measure and a visual system that pays homage to Visconti and Bertolucci.
Romans and Maupas, already loved by the new generations thanks to their interpretations in Everything asks for salvation e Sea outsidefind themselves in a project that makes them shine in a completely new register. I am no longer alone faces popbut mature actors who measure themselves with the complexity of history and feelings. Valentina Romani thus becomes a symbol of a new cinematographic femininity: strong but never invulnerable, autonomous but not cynical. Whether it is in a modern police station or in a diroccato palace in the Post-war riverhis gaze always tells something that is worth listening. And while the public becomes fond of Lea Coen week after week, the wait for Romans to the cinema is already growing. At the festival of the Revolution he promises to be one of those films that we will talk about for a long time, and not only for his impeccable historical system. But because it tells, through Beatrice’s eyes, the courage to choose which side to stay on, even when everything around it asks only to survive.
