This movie suffers for the typical problem of biopics, the attempt to stuff a lifetime material into a couple of hours. Moreover, Dalida's life was very full, both of joy and tragic events and squeezing everything into two hours was not accomplished successfully.
Dalida was born Iolanda Gigliotti from an Italian couple that had moved to Egypt. She herself moved to France in the mid-50s to improve her career that had started in Egypt. Her first success was the song Bambino and she was helped by her first husband, a much older and successful radio producer.
After her divorce, she managed her career very successfully, not only in France but in several countries, since she spoke several languages and was a talented actress and dancer. Unfortunately her private life was marred by a series of scandals (leaving her husband after a month of marriage, a much younger lover, etc...) and by a string of lovers who committed suicide, starting with Italian singer Luigi Tenco.
Labelled as "the last diva", Dalida managed to be successful until the end of her career, when she slipped into a suicidal depression herself. This rather depressing story is narrated in a most annoying series of flashbacks and muddled timeline. Sveva Alviti (a total unknown for me) does a great job as Dalida, unfortunately her look changes very little from Dalida's youth to her last years: Dalida killed herself at 54 but in the movie she looks perennially in her her early 30s.
Dalida was born Iolanda Gigliotti from an Italian couple that had moved to Egypt. She herself moved to France in the mid-50s to improve her career that had started in Egypt. Her first success was the song Bambino and she was helped by her first husband, a much older and successful radio producer.
After her divorce, she managed her career very successfully, not only in France but in several countries, since she spoke several languages and was a talented actress and dancer. Unfortunately her private life was marred by a series of scandals (leaving her husband after a month of marriage, a much younger lover, etc...) and by a string of lovers who committed suicide, starting with Italian singer Luigi Tenco.
Labelled as "the last diva", Dalida managed to be successful until the end of her career, when she slipped into a suicidal depression herself. This rather depressing story is narrated in a most annoying series of flashbacks and muddled timeline. Sveva Alviti (a total unknown for me) does a great job as Dalida, unfortunately her look changes very little from Dalida's youth to her last years: Dalida killed herself at 54 but in the movie she looks perennially in her her early 30s.