Gisella, Jean-Pierre Verheggen

Whether as Princess Hatshepsut, in Luxor, on a dromedary; as the Queen of Sheba traversing the Great Garabagne region of Namur; as a Tuscan little girl in her native village of Sorgnano di Carrara; as a sensual and carnal actress in 1950s Italian cinema or burning herself out as Cinderella, a small pile of ashes, Gisella Fusani, who died last September after a long and hateful illness, continues to live on in this moving poem of mad love that attempts to restore her to us as she herself continues to be: beautiful, infinitely gentle, and magnificently rebellious