The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation

Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive novel about the dazzling social ascent of a rebellious heroine; too scandalous to be published at that contradictory time.

• Coralie MartinDirector
• Claire DiterziOriginal Music Composer
• Coralie MartinWriter

• Estelle MeyerModesta (voice)
• Nathalie RichardSelf - Narrator (voice)
• Frédéric MartinSelf
• Nathalie CastagnéSelf
• Alberica BazzoniSelf
• Monica FarnettiSelf
• Valeria GolinoSelf
• Angelo PellegrinoSelf
• Goliarda SapienzaSelf (archive footage)