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‘Fuori’ Review: Jailtime Revives a Middle-Aged Writer’s Mojo in Mario Martone’s Uninvolving Literary Biopic
Valeria Golino plays author Goliarda Sapienza in Mario Martone's 'Fuori,' but it's Matilda de Angelis who gives the film what spark of life it has.
After a lengthy run of Venice-premiered features, many of them rooted in Italian national history and lore, that could diplomatically be deemed of primarily local interest, Martone returned to the Cannes competition — and to many international arthouse markets — with 2022’s “Nostalgia,” a handsome, atmospheric Neapolitan crime drama enhanced by the star presence of Pierfrancesco Favino. The film will continue in this restless, darting manner, as Martone, co-writer Ippolita di Majo and editor Jacopo Quadri aim to cultivate some sense of intrigue around Sapienza’s journey by withholding key information about the past until fairly arbitrary points in the overall structure. Though the script is loosely drawn from multiple texts by Sapienza, her own authorial voice doesn’t emerge in what mostly amounts to a drifting, episodically disordered mood piece, lensed in a perma-golden late-afternoon haze by DP Paolo Carnera, that bookmarks ideas on class difference and generational shifts in feminine identity, but can’t stay in one place long enough to expand on them.
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