Princess tells of a life on the margins without false piety

There is no happy ending for the Princess of the film by the director and screenwriter Robert de Paulis. There is no end to life on the fringes that the young Nigerian sex worker consumed in a pine forest on the Roman coast, a trap for her and her companions exploited by adult, elderly, neurotic, violent or wealthy idle men (including the good Maurice Lombardi in the role of a rich idler wandering the streets of the pine forest in a blue blazer and white Ferrari).

But Princess, played by GloryKevinis not just a victim: in the morning she prays God to send her many clients to quickly pay off the debt to her patroness and in the days spent among the shrubs she lives the life of an illegal immigrant fleeing the law with ease and aggression (the images of the Police on horseback chasing her along the paths of the forest which from a trap becomes a refuge) and from that humanity, incomprehensible to her, that he meets and with which he often clashes.

The gaze that seems distracted by the screen of the inseparable cell phone, is instead focused on what that existence made up of hidden dangers, rejections, beatings and little money could offer her.

Until meeting with Conrad (Lino Musella) that deludes Princess about the possibility of another life, “normal”, made of sandwiches at the bar and karaoke. But it can’t last: the escape from Corrado wounds her body, which from that moment on feels pain during encounters with men, rejects them, plunges her into a heavy sleep, in the cold, on a makeshift bed outdoors, surrounded by woodland creatures like her. And one evening Princess flees in the dark among the cars of customers who risk running over her, a fate befallen a fox in the first sequences of the film.

The lead actress of the film he really lived on the edge of our cities and collaborated on the dialogues in that mixture of Italian and broken english which amplifies the distance of his world from ours where we believe we are the only legitimate inhabitants. Director he invites us not to judge, to maintain a free, open gazethe same one who despite a life on the sidelines keeps the princess of the title.