Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Older sister of Carla Bruni and younger sister of Virginio Bruni Tedeschi (1959 - July 4th, 2006).

[press conference for Un castello in Italia (2013) at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival] What we wanted to show in this film was two people: there was the mother and Louise, for whom faith is very important. The mother is deeply involved in faith - there are disputes, quarrels, but you have the impression that she's a real believer. With Louise, there is a scene that we cut out during the editing; she was a believer when younger, but she's lost this belief, so she tries to knock on the door, she tries to open up the door to belief and to faith, but she somehow seems to remain outside all the time. She's not far from believing - it's a sort of a borderline situation which intrigues me a very great deal. You have this issue of both faith and superstition. We wanted to talk about someone who was trying to enter this house of faith.