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Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'


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Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'

By Xan Brooks

 

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Sophia Loren, photographed by her son Edoardo Ponti, in her house in Geneva in 2020. Photograph: Edoardo Ponti/Netflix

 

The CGI lioness that materialises at intervals in the Netflix drama The Life Ahead is a sad and sorry-looking thing.

 

It has a glossy gold coat and a twitching gold tail and brings a dose of magic realism to an otherwise gritty 21st-century tale.

 

But it is too skimpy and tame. It lacks exoticism and menace. It pales when compared to the movie’s other big beast.

 

Ostensibly, The Life Ahead spins the story of Madame Rosa, a fiery samaritan and former sex worker on the coast of southern Italy.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/06/sophia-loren-the-body-changes-the-mind-does-not

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