Inspired by a story related to him by an acquaintance, Marco Danieli’s "Worldly Girl" is a rare account of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Italy. Besides winning Best New Director at the Davide di Donatello Awards, Danieli won the Venice Film Festival’s Brian Award, established by the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics and named in homage to the Monty Python film, "Life of Brian." Sensitively executed, "Worldly Girl" deftly and astonishingly portrays the devastating realities of class and religious oppression. Afforded a lengthy interview with the director in the buzzing press room of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema at Lincoln Center, Danieli and I talked about creating a film from an atheist perspective. What Danieli reveals about this way of looking at the world might provide some insight to those unfamiliar with secularism and I am glad to be able to share this aspect of our conversation, in which Danieli also touches upon the recent spik...
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