Sophia Loren is recovering well following surgery, a rep for the 89-year-old actress relayed to the press on Tuesday. “I thank everyone for the closeness and affection that they are showing me,” Loren said through her agent, according to The Associated Press. “I am better, just have to do rehabilitation and give myself a period of rest.”
Earlier this week, she underwent surgery to repair several fractures to her hip and femur after she fell in her bedroom in Geneva, Switzerland, where she has lived for decades. “Sophia underwent surgery...
Earlier this week, she underwent surgery to repair several fractures to her hip and femur after she fell in her bedroom in Geneva, Switzerland, where she has lived for decades. “Sophia underwent surgery...
- 9/27/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Six years ago, Sophia Loren emerged from retirement to film Jean Cocteau’s “The Human Voice” — her version of the one-act play that Tilda Swinton and Pedro Almodóvar recently adapted during lockdown, and which Anna Magnani and Ingrid Bergman had each tackled decades before. In the 25-minute project, which was directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, Loren plays a woman alone but for her housekeeper in an Italian villa, speaking to the man she once loved via a shaky phone connection.
“The only thing left between us is this telephone wire,” Loren says in the film, her voice torn.
In a way, that short feels like a forecast of Loren’s life today, as the coronavirus has forced so many into isolation — including the still vibrant acting legend, who laughs easily and often over the course of a career-spanning 90-minute phone call. The Italian star, the first person from any...
“The only thing left between us is this telephone wire,” Loren says in the film, her voice torn.
In a way, that short feels like a forecast of Loren’s life today, as the coronavirus has forced so many into isolation — including the still vibrant acting legend, who laughs easily and often over the course of a career-spanning 90-minute phone call. The Italian star, the first person from any...
- 11/2/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
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