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," Nanni Moretti's totemic 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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