Card Seulement par amour Jo
Summary
Joanna Dolce, famous top model, meets the young Pietro and his father Alberto, famous Italian lawyer, in the waiting room of the hospital. The latter had a terrible accident and while the father stays with his dying wife, the young boy is alone in the waiting room.
Jo suggests taking the young Pietro with her so as not to let him alone at the hospital. This is the start of an unconventional friendship between Jo and the little boy, who reminds her of her own past and her hidden pains. She undoubtedly gives him the help that she would have like to receive when she was a child.
Their obvious complicity seduces Alberto who falls in love with this young woman, whom he does not know anything about. Jo finds out that Alberto is the nephew of her former lover…in order to preserve their love, she decides not to tell him anything. Although Alberto wants her to stop her modeling activities and become a devoted woman, Jo, who cares a lot for Pietro, imagines being able to start a real family. Alberto marries Jo but soon finds out the truth. Following a violent argument, Alberto leaves Jo half unconscious in his apartment and files a divorce…He ignores that she is carrying their child.
Opinion
This is a very moving film with a tremendous international cast. A drama in which the actors demonstrate a whole pallet of feelings and emotions. Corinne Touzet has a role which is at the same time radiating and horribly dark, swaying from mad love to the terrible loss of a child, from the flashes of the photographers from all over the world to the corridors of a psychiatric hospital when her memories come back to the surface. Joanna DOLCE was raped as a child and assisted at the murder of her mother.
Corinne Touzet brings us from the light to the madness, from love to death but we always keep a twinge of hope…
Actors
Joanna Dolce : Corinne TOUZET
Alberto Fortis : Giuliano GEMME
Jacques : Marc DE JONGE
Dora Ratti : Daniela POGGI
Pietro Fortis : Matteo MOBILIA
Doctor Chenot : Hélène SURGERE
Technical team
Director : Philippe MONNIER
Scenario - Adaptation – Dialogues : Catherine BORGELLA and France BOURGEOIS (novel by Maria VENTURI , « la moglie nella cornice »).
Director of photography : Roberto VENTURI
Production Directors : Catherine LAPOUJADE – Eutizio de SALVATORE
Chief set design : Maurizia NARDUCCI
Chief editing : Suzanne LANG-WILLAR
Wardrobe mistress : Marie-Françoise PEROCHON
Chief make-up : Nilo IACOPONI
Chief hairdresser : Enrico LUZZI
Casting Director : Caroline SCHWEICH