to Moravia author of many famous portraits of women, liked to write in the first person. from La romana (1947) to La ciociara (1957) and to La donna Leopardo (1990) delved into female psychology with love, irony, cruelty, sensitivity. Prostitutes, actresses, bourgeois, commoners, intellectuals, very young or mature: none escaped his subtle pen.
Particularly in the last twenty years, Moravia wrote short stories that obey to this absolute principle of the first person feminine. We have chosen six in which, between ′70 and ′90, Moravia sketched these lives of women he knew best, with an incomparable art of vitality, humor, and acerbic delicacy. We have included among these invented lives two true memories of youthful love affairs. A Frenchwoman he wanted to marry. And a Parisian woman crossed paths one foggy evening. Love, lie, illusion, seduction, betrayal, awakened dream, anxiety of death, joy of life. So many themes that constitute an unexpected self-portrait through women.

That great friend of directors, that subtle film critic was to be reborn on the stage thanks to a legendary French film actress, a friend of Italy. With her inner voice, fragile, sensual, at once ironic and sweet, Anouk Aimée naturally follows the confidences and provocations of Moravia′s women. The unforgettable interpreter of La Dolce Vita and 8 ½ and many other Italian films could not do to less than belong one day to the Moravian world.

Prologue
1. Words of actress.
2. A young blonde with many shirts.
3. Straight.
4. That strange girl reciting Dostoevsky.
5. The closet.
7. The words and the body.
8. Sleepwalker.

‍