Love and sexuality
Yet while the film has the Balkan War as a backdrop, it’s largely forgotten as the love story unfolds. Bellucci and the film play up the human drama, rather than any political message that some may seek. “I’ve been for four years in this land of beauty and suffering, but I approached this project from a human and artistic point of view and not a political one.”
Bellucci adds, “It’s so difficult for us to make a judgment about what happened over there. I met so many people, and people who have been through so many horrible things, so while the film is set during the Balkan war from 1990 – 1994, it is not necessarily a political film. Even though there is violence, it remains a poetic and dreamlike world with a love story, of two adult people who have been through so many hardships.
For me this film proves that love and sexuality is a matter of energy and not age.” Indeed, experience is an increasingly sexy attribute as far as the actress is concerned. She divulges, “And sometimes I meet women when they are 60, 70, 80, 90 and they are just amazing.
Some men too. I remember when I worked with Helmut Newton and he was 81 at the time and we were sharing this experience together and it was just unbelievable, full of energy. He is an incredible man.
I like a man that has had experiences and been through so many things in their lives and survived. These men are very sexy and it doesn't matter what age they are.” As if to prove the point about her sexuality not diminishing and seemingly obliterating her own assertion of being a shy person, Bellucci recently made headlines for posing nude in a swimming pool for Paris Match.
She says she decided to do the shoot, because, “I like doing it. I come from the world of fashion and I love pictures.” Yet Bellucci can be coy when she wants to be.
Asked about her forthcoming role in the much-anticipated Twin Peaks revival, Bellucci smile, takes her hand up to her mouth and clasps her fingers, so announcing she’s staying mute. I don’t even think a damn fine cup of coffee or cherry pie would induce her to say anything more. It seems the shyness arises, when it suits and it’s Bellucci that is in control.
Source: independent
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Monica, my life has been an adventure to complete this epic novel would end with a beautiful lover who finds the man she wants in a most fantastic way . Don't look for me as any mortal, find perfection and intrigue by following your heart , it lives inside me waiting to be claimed by only one glorious woman.