for her passion and the long career that awaits her. She is a well-rounded actress: intense, capable of combining tragedy and comedy, satire and commitment, dynamism and static interpretation.

Vital, cheerful, energetic yet stubborn, Valentina Carnelutti is one of the most incisive actress of the new Italian cinema.

Her career is on the rise "because she has always been a 'bad girl'; because she is fluent in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish; because she prefers to work with independent filmmakers (the last of whom is John Sinopoli in Hertz, an experiment on 'hearing hypersensitiveness') and because she likes to come up with unusual distribution methods.
Or maybe it is because she continues to alternate the stage and the big screen, instead of falling in the golden trap of the 'small screen'.
And also because she has lived abroad (two years in Mexico City to name but one place) working with Angelopoulos, Ridley Scott, Soderbergh and Bollywood (The Fakir of Venice, in 2008, directed by Anand Surapur) and in Italy with 'heretics', who risk being condemned by 'the verdict of the audience', such as Pau, Maselli, Orlando, Zanasi, Giordana, Maderna and Moroni...
Or because her gaze incinerates, her voice seduces, and her body recalls that of Anna Pavlova… And at the recent festival of Sant'Arcangelo 2009, she carried out, along with the African American composer Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, a radical multi-discipline Pascolian experiment like Chorus of Poets
(Roberto Silvestri).