Deadline reports. The film is directed by the star’s son, Edoardo Ponti.“When my son proposed the role to me, it was a dream come true.
I jumped at the opportunity to make it,” Loren told Deadline. “I loved portraying Madame Rosa. She is tough, she is fragile, she is a survivor.
In many ways she reminds me of my own mother.”The Academy Award winner (1961’s “Two Women”) plays a Jewish woman and Holocaust survivor who helps raise the children of prostitutes — and she’s already getting Oscar buzz for the role.That makes sense, given the timing.
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