#loukoum

Deleted the surname, starts over (II/II)

Rome, June by Stelio Martini "Only now - she says - I feel myself for the first time". This means that she can finally build her own life for herself, a life that is work and love, cinema on the one hand and Frédéric Pardo, a neo-surrealist painter and scion of Sartre, on the other. Frédéric is here with her, in Rome, but he is not at home: however, you can feel the presence of him, I would say the perfume, a sharp, oriental perfume, in all the rooms: the vases of lilies, the blue lights , the unmade beds, the guitars, the gilded necklaces, the exvoto, the belts. But Tina there she is at ease. Left without a mother at the age of five, she experienced suffocating loneliness during her childhood and adolescence. In her memory there is not a single house, but only that of a series of boarding schools; nor did Marisa Pavan gave her that home in which she hoped so much.

Tina does not like to talk about her disagreements with her stepmother, but even less than what happened later: at sixteen she left boarding school, at seventeen she was married to a friend of her father. From the colleges of nuns to the arms of Marquand: it was a good leap. "I don't have but bad memories," she says honestly. Until a few days ago, Marquand was in Rome, where he directed the movie "Candy", but Tina never wanted to meet him. There is nothing between them, not even friendship: they divorced after a year and a half, but they separated almost immediately after the death of their unborn child.

Tina Aumont's "rebirth" began recently. Merit of her meeting with a young man, two years older than her, rich, mildly revolutionary, a follower of non-violence. Frédéric Pardo paints surrealist and science fiction landscapes, in which he expresses his desire for a new and better world but without violence. At 24, he has already been married (some say he divorced for Tina). They met in Paris: he with his philosophy, his necklaces, his paintings; she shares her delusions and her film romance by María Montez, according to which love lasts forever. Now they have even formed a little music group, the "Loukoum", and they say: "If we are not successful, what does it matter? We are so happy all the same."