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Ilaria Borrelli was born in Naples, Italy, in 1968. She is a writer, actress, scriptwriter, director, and producer. She has performed in movies, plays, and in French and Italian TV series. Between 1999 and 2007, Borrelli published four novels, Scosse, Luccattmì, Domani si Gira, and Tanto Rumore per Tullia, for which she received critical acclaim and several prestigious literary prizes. After discovering Borrelli’s novels, I became interested in her movies.
The way for women to be liberated is not by “becoming a man” or by envying what men have and their objects, but by female subjects once again valorizing the expression of their own sex and gender.
—Luce Irigaray
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Cantini, M. (2013). Ilaria Borrelli. In: Cantini, M. (eds) Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137336514_12
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