November 27, 2020
Farewell to Daria Nicolodi, mother of Asia Argento, companion of life and unforgettable films of Dario Argento. But above all a cultured, refined woman, a lover of art in all its forms, from theater, to cinema, to painting. Who in recent years lived in a secluded position (“I’m someone who doesn’t show off: ‘garbeggio’, I do like Garbo, I hide a bit”), preferring to be the grandmother of her beloved grandchildren and continuing to deal with art, even on social media. The film debut with Francesco Rosi, the long association with Carmelo Bene (“Friend only, one of the few with whom it was nice to spend the night; so much friend that he put me in the titles of his ‘Salomè’ even if it wasn’t true because during the shooting I was engaged in the theater), the meeting with Elio Petri who chooses her for “Property is no longer a theft.” The parallel musical career that will lead her to a successful duet with Gigi Proietti at the end of the decade after her success at the Theater Sistina with “The comedy of Gaetanaccio.” And then again “Portrait of a veiled woman” at the beginning of the 70s, until the decisive meeting for her life and career, the one with Dario Argento, with whom she will make a daughter (Asia), will write films, will start a unique and profitable artistic partnership in those years, helping to rehabilitate a genre, horror, hitherto considered as a series b
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