To tell the desire to become parents and the difficulties that sometimes this entails. In Utero, the new original Italian TV series by HBO Max, starts from this premise creating an Italian medical drama but in the Spanish frame of Barcelona, where there is the clinic managed by Professor Gentile interpreted by Sergio Castellitto and his wife Teresa (Maria Pia Calzone). Written by Margaret Mazzantini, co-author with Enrico Audenino and Teresa Gelli also of the serial subject, In Utero is directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi who also curates the artistic direction of the project. The director of the last four episodes is entrusted to Nicola Sorcinelli. The complete technical and artistic cast (with the regular Thony and Alessio Fiorenza) presented the series coming from May 8, with 8 weekly release bets, on HBO Max, in the setting of the Barberini cinema in Rome.
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In Utero, le dichiarazioni dalla conferenza stampa
Margaret Mazzantini: “I wrote the ‘bibbia’, the first idea of the whole series but I did not follow the scripts passed in hand to Enrico Audenino. The idea started with a passionate biologist and his fellow biologist also she but more distant, cold. Maternity is a little always a war.”.
Maria Sole Tognazzi: “A son is not a right, nor a duty but a desire. I did not have them either because for health reasons I no longer have the uterus, or because I did not feel the need, the desire. I was lucky to see adult friends, who managed to become mothers and others who did not succeed. The series speaks of parenthood but also and above all of family, in a broader possible way, creation of nuclei. The series needed to be in Spain because if a single woman wants to have a child she has to go there. We went to a clinic where there was a team of Italian doctors.”.
Sergio Castellitto: “This is my third doctor. One of the things I liked most was to see how the driving force is feminine. Couples arriving at the clinic have a form of lack, with a desire over life. This is a psycho-medical. An interesting character is that of Maria Pia Calzone, who has no desire but contributes to this result from a financial point of view”.
Alessio Fiorenza: “It was a huge privilege for me. The theme of the transition of my character is treated like other themes. Beyond the specific argument I wondered why it is so, because it has this character. On the one hand he is an experienced biologist, on the other he has a fragility in relations with others. I have felt a great sense of responsibility because they are often themes faced with cliches or common places, doing so with this depth I felt necessary. In the end everything is political for the greater reason these themes.”.
Maria Pia Calzone: “The character has my own age, so I understand her thought, a woman who chose not to have children. Because if there is the right to have children, there is also that of not having them. And that doesn’t mean you don’t have a life plan or a family.”.
Thony: “From now it is a lot of Caront, accompanies patients but does not have a medical basis, perhaps it feels inadequate, but it discovers to have a human material.”.
Enrico Audenino: “The medical component totally excludes the ideological aspect and perhaps there is a society that is ahead of what one might think. We consulted experts, visited clinics and talked to patients. I noticed that it is often a taboo theme. We hope to work on the second season. Surely it is an idea that had not been done before. I hope that this series will open a debate, setting it in Spain gave us the opportunity to tell more stories and already Margaret’s idea was set in that country. When you begin to know the stories, overcome the idea of the child, of the factory of children.”.
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