Award-winning Italian actress
Margherita Buy said Tuesday she fearlessly jumped into directing
for the first time in Volare, a quirky comedy about fear of
flying that premieres at the Rome Film Festival Tuesday night.
In the film, which 61-year-old Buy also co-wrote, she plays
AnnaBì, an actress forced to turn down a breakout Korean role
because she is too scared to fly there, but who takes an airline
pilot's course to try to cure herself after her daughter gets
into a US college.
"With Doriana Leondeff and Antonio Leotti we wrote a screenplay,
entertaining to us, that recounts one of the most common fears
in the world: that of flying," the Nanni Moretti fetish actress
told ANSA.
"The hope is that via the story of these characters and their
fears the public can recognise themselves and smile about their
fragilities".
Italy's ITA Airways, the smaller reincarnation of former
national flag carrier Alitalia, collaborated in the film.
Buy has a record seven David di Donatello and seven Silver
Ribbon awards and has worked with most of Italy's biggest
directors and comic actors including Mario Monicelli, Giuseppe
Tornatore, Carlo Verdone, her one-time husband Sergio Rubini,
Giuseppe Piccioni, Roberto Faenza, Paolo Virzì, Daniele
Lucchetti, Roberta Comencini, Ferzan Ozpetek and Moretti, for
whom she has so far appeared in five features: The Caiman,
Habemus Papam,, My Mother, Three Floors and this year's A
Brighter Tomorrow.
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