The good body - Giuseppe Bertolucci walking with Eve Ensler

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The good body - Giuseppe Bertolucci walking with Eve Ensler

The good body - Giuseppe Bertolucci walking with Eve Ensler

original title:

The good body - Giuseppe Bertolucci walking with Eve Ensler

directed by:

cast:

Nicoletta Billi, Luisa Grosso, Eve Ensler

country:

Italy

year:

2026

film run:

64'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (01/07/2026)

Billions of women are pressured by media ideals of the “perfect body,” fuelling industries like cosmetics, dieting, fitness, and surgery—often at great personal risk. The Good Body, a play by Giuseppe Bertolucci and Luisa Grosso based on Eve Ensler’s book, debuted in Naples in 2007 and toured Italian museums, exploring women’s body obsessions.
In 2025, Luisa Grosso’s documentary revisits this work, blending new images and reflections on its impact. It portrays a distorted world of extreme beauty standards and asks: what is the right body? The answer: the one we live in, changing and resisting. A tragic yet ironic call for identity, awareness, and change.
Dedicated to Giuseppe Bertolucci.