Mona Lisa Smile

Titolo originale: Mona Lisa Smile
Regia: Mike Newell |
Anno: 2003
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Storia Romance
Tag: massachusetts | art school | inspiration | feminist | conservative | lgbt | post war | post world war ii | faculty | art history | teacher hero | women's issues | subversive | 1950s | unmarried woman | woman centric | women and society | woman independence | women's independence | liberal arts |
Cast: Julia Roberts | Kirsten Dunst | Julia Stiles | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Ginnifer Goodwin | Dominic West | Juliet Stevenson | Marcia Gay Harden | John Slattery | Marian Seldes | Donna Mitchell | Terence Rigby | Jennie Eisenhower | Leslie Lyles | Laura Allen | Topher Grace | Lily Lodge | Jordan Bridges | Ebon Moss-Bachrach | Chuck Montgomery | Taylor Roberts | John Scurti | Ed Peed | Rony Clanton | Becky Veduccio | Paul Vincent Black | Lisa Roberts Gillan | June Miller | Aleksa Palladino | Charles Techman | Lauren Adler | Daisy Baldwin | Janine Barris | Emily Bauer | Kirstie Bingham | Jennifer Bowen | Angelique Claire | Nikki Coble | Kristen Connolly | Kristyn Coppola | Kimberly Ehly | Megan Marie Ford | Lauren Fruchter | Kate Glass | Amanda Gruss | Stella Hao | Walker Hays | Michele Hillen | Annika Marks | Amy Montminy | Lily Rabe | Kate Reilly | Krysten Ritter | Brandy Tipton | Trisha Trokan | Megan Tropea | Maja Wampuszyc | Mary Pascoe | Elise Passamani | Laura M. Flahive | Devon Jencks | Erin E. Richardson | Emily R. See | Rob Buntzen | Richard O'Rourke | Chris Bonomo | Katherine Argo | Shelby Bond | Lou Brock | Michael Choi | Melissa Deles | John D. Fowler | Nicole Frydman | Noelle Gibson | Maria Vicens Girau | Natalie Gomez | Sid Grant | Madeleine Hackney | Betina Hershey | Yuval Hod | Richard Jones | Jerry Jordan | Nickolay Khazanov | Nadia Kravets | Maria Levinstein | KellyDawn Malloy | Annette Nicole | Lance Olds | Joe Palmer | Christian Perry | Daniel Ponickly | Tony Scheppler | Solomon Singer | Gabriel Vaughan | Kim Villanueva | Dan Weltner | Sarah Billings Wheeler | Denise Zadroga | Peter J. Rowan | Tori Amos | Kevin Osborne | Brad Mehldau | Larry Grenadier | Julie Wagner | Jennifer Anderson | Lindsey White | Chris Burke | Dorothy Dwyer | Melanie Angelique Moyer | Canedy Knowles | Kristen Marie Holly | Carrie Ann Kaye | Liliane Thomas | Jackie Sanders | Anna Fields | Valerie Vaile | Jill Whitaker | Randi Newton | Grenville Cuyler | Erik Davies | Gunna Wilson | Corey W. Allen | Marylouise Burke | Trish McGettrick | Jeannette Gould | Whitney Avalon | Eric Bruno Borgman | Cristie Schoen Codd | Katrina Connor | Marlo DiCrasto | Ashley Dru Douglass | Liesl Ehardt | Jessica Leigh Johnson | Marni Penning | Dina Rose Rivera | Melissa Goodwin Shepherd | Josh Mowery | Matthew Shaffer | Michael Cuomo | Maria Rusolo | Christopher Braden |

USA, 1953: tempi di guerra fredda, maccartismo e integrazione razziale. Tutto molto lontano dal Wellesley College, prestigiosa scuola femminile, dove le materie sono un optional rispetto all'insegnamento base, principio fondamentale per le allieve: lo scopo primo nella vita di una donna resta ancora il matrimonio. È in questa realtà che arriva la nuova insegnante di storia dell'arte Katherine Watson: 36 anni, fiera “zitella” di estrazione operaia, convinta di poter aprire le menti delle sue represse, ma non sempre ottuse, aristocratiche allieve. Com'è prevedibile la donna si scontra contro il corpo insegnanti conservatore e con la diffidenza delle ragazze, ma non si arrende e spiegando come “leggere” Leonardo e Van Gogh, introducendo Pollock e facendosi coinvolgere anche nelle beghe amorose, riesce finalmente ad abbattere il muro di ostilità posto fra lei e le alunne.

Approfondimenti

Film debut of Kristen Connolly. D
Kirsten Dunst, a natural blonde, dyed her hair brown. Julia Stiles, a natural brunette, dyed her hai [...] D
The negative reaction by Wellesley alumnae to the film's inaccuracies generated a number of newspape [...] D
Kirsten Dunst and Topher Grace also starred in Spider-Man 3 (2007). D
In order to prepare for their roles, the leads were all put through a finishing school two weeks pri [...] D
The war story that Bill Dunbar tells during his Italian class is borrowed from the World War I novel [...] D
Critic Roger Ebert quipped in his review of the film that "I find it hard to believe that Wellesley [...] D
Ginnifer Goodwin and Topher Grace both played in Appuntamento da sogno! (2004). D
In real life, Elizabeth Warren is also the name of the U.S. Senator of Massachusetts, where Wellesle [...] D
Krysten Ritter and Lily Rabe, now both well known leading actresses, appear in numerous scenes of th [...] D
In the pool, the girls in the background practicing synchronized swimming are members of the Wheaton [...] D
Laura Allen graduated from Wellesley. She was a sociology major. After this film's release and its n [...] D
Lecture Hall scenes were filmed at Columbia University, which maintains a 50-year-old lecture hall u [...] D
To prepare for her role, Julia Roberts observed art history classes at New York University. D
Costars Julia Roberts and Marcia Gay Harden won Oscars in the same year--Roberts for Erin Brockovich [...] D
The costuming department fell short on historical accuracy in several parts of the film, most notice [...] D
Italian censorship visa # 97644 delivered on 12 December 2003. D
June Miller's debut. D
Phyllis Naylor the girl who is said to be the next girl to get married shares a name with writer Phy [...] D
At the time the movie came out Kirstin Dunst was dating Maggie Gyllenhaal's brother actor Jake Gylle [...] D
The cast includes two Oscar winners: Julia Roberts, Marcia Gay Harden, and two nominees: Maggie Gyll [...] D
Upon its release, the film was widely derided by critics and historians for its factual mistakes and [...] D
David Ansen's review of ''Mona Lisa Smile'' in Newsweek encapsulated many of the criticisms leveled [...] D
Part of the film was shot at Columbia University of which actresses Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenha [...] D
Emily Bauer's debut. D
Chloë Sevigny turned down the role of Giselle Levy. Sevigny believed the film's screenplay was ba [...] D
Film debut of Laura Allen. D
The painting that the girls look at is Jackson Pollock's Number 1 ( Lavender Mist) D
The Harvard Din & Tonics: the a cappella group singing "Istanbul not Constantinople". D
Ginnifer Goodwin's film debut. D
In one part Gisele asks her friends if she looks like Katherine Watson. In real life Maggie Gyllenha [...] D
Prior to the film's premiere, the producers held a special presentation of the film for Wellesley al [...] D
When marketing the film in 2003, studio publicists claimed the film was based upon Hillary Clinton's [...] D
Producers originally applied to film at Bryn Mawr College, another one of the Seven Sisters. It is u [...] D