Cristina Comencini: “I remained pregnant and chose to abort, then at 18 I had my son Carlo Calenda: he and I grew up together”

The last work as director of Cristina Comencini And The children’s trainwhich on Netflix has reached almost thirty million views. On the wave of the success of the film, the sixty -eight year old granted an interview with Corriere della Sera in which he also talks about his private side. Starting from the children. The first was the fifty -two year old politician Carlo Calenda, born from the relationship with the journalist and writer Fabio Calenda when she was only 18 years old: «Carlo is very young. It is lost and it is beautiful. Carlo and I grew up completely together. AND Julia was born immediately after. Then came Luigi (had by the musician Riccardo Tozzi with which she was married until 2016ed) and then Carlo’s son was born (Comencini became a grandmother at just 33 years olded). I spent the youth with the children, I raised four children in practice. I took them everywhere, even at the university to give the exams ».

Cristina had been pregnant even earlier. However he had decided to abort “The son of this man I loved and who then became my husband ». When at seventeen he discovered the new pregnancy, he thought about abortion again. But «I had suffered a lot. I didn’t want to repeat». And so the eldest son Carlo was born. Comencini became a mother for the first time at the age of eighteen. Nonetheless he has no regret for his “lost” youth: “It went like this.I am writing about it in my next novel that will be released for Feltrinelli in October, it’s called The happy era, And I speak of adolescence, which is a fundamental moment of existence, even with those crazy … and then but calm you, and force yourself in roles that are not yours, and lose your identity. But life surprises you, and it also brings you where you don’t want. Having my children so soon gave me the wealth of everything I wrote».

In the interview with CourierComencini also spoke of his last love, The French documentary maker François Caillat. A love that surprised her in mature age: «We met at the Festival du Film Italien de Vilirupt, in Lorena. I didn’t even want to go, it was a period when I was a little down. ” Between the two it was not love at first sight: «We wrote a lot before. We live between Rome and Parisour life is complicated by continuous movements. But maybe even rejoiced. They are two wonderful cities and then This love has reopened, this sense of couple». Do you fall in love with adults, do you have the same intensity as when it happens as young people? «In the new book the two protagonists meet teenagers and find themselves, for incredible reasons, further on. There is that unconscious impetus of when you are young … but at 60 you are free insideyou have no obligations of children, know the limits of the couple and feeling. Let yourself go without dangers».