loren plays madame rosa, a holocaust survivor living in a southern italian port town who cares for thehe once shared. when orphan senegalese street kid momo steals rosa's bag and then moves in with her, an initially fractious but ultimately redemptive friendship ensues. gary's novel was previously adapted as madame rosa, with simone signoret in the title role, winning the oscar for best foreign language film in 1978. this new version makes key changes to the time and place of the story, but also softens its edges, sidestepping some of the complexities of the source in pursuit of more formulaic emotional engagement. the result is a fairly standard melodrama, alternately tear—jerking and uplifting and played out to syrupy musical accompaniment. if loren does pick up an oscar nod, as variety recently said she might, she'd not only become the academy's oldest ever best actress nominee, she'd also break henry fonda's record for the longest gap between acting nominations. the life ahead is on netflix now. i have schizophrenia, a chronic mental disorder, allowing for visual and auditory hallu

her latest, madame rosa, is a former prostitute, who cares for the kids of other sex workers. lives on the margins of italian society, much like loren did growing up in poverty with an unmarried, single mom in a suburb of naples. >> that's why i made the film. she reminded me a lot about my mother. my mother was absolutely like that. inside, she was very fragile. but she looked strong. >> reporter: the family connections do not stop there. the film's director is edoardo ponti, her son. who is the boss onset? h>> he pretends not to, but he is the boss. >> reporter: he doesn't even need to speak and it says a lot. edoardo is the younger of two sons loren had with her late husband, carlo ponti, the movie producer who first discovered her as a tie teenage jer inr in a re beauty pageant. did you always have your mom in mind for this role? >> i wish she did. >> i don't think anybody could have inhabited the role the character of madame rosa the way she did. if my mother happens to be such an amazing actress, and i happen to be a director, i would be an idiot if i did not cast my mot

gary's novel was previously adapted as madame rosa, with simone signoret in the title role, winning the to the time and place of the story, but also softens its edges, sidestepping some of the complexities of the source in pursuit of more formulaic emotional engagement. the result is a fairly standard melodrama, alternately tear—jerking and uplifting and played out to syrupy musical accompaniment. if loren does pick up an oscar nod, as variety recently said she might, she'd not only become the academy's oldest ever best actress nominee, she'd also break henry fonda's record for the longest gap between acting nominations. the life ahead is on netflix now. i have schizophrenia, a chronic mental disorder allowing for visual and auditory hallucinations, never normal. the end. i'll leave you with news of another film that's currently playing in the few cinemas that are open, and hoping to expand its release as more reopen in the coming weeks and months. adapted from a novel byjulia walton, words 0n bathroom walls stars charlie plummer as adam, the highschooler living with schizophrenia, whic

. >> madam chair, can i ask another question? >> yes, please. >> maybe mr. de la rosa can answer this. will he answer if any of the investigations have to do with the bonds? >> i can go back and take a look at the history of all of our projects and see if azul was a contractor in any of the previous ones. >> yeah, i think that that's the spirit of the question is for the bond money that we were overseeing and the projects we were overseeing, was that contractor hired to do any of the work with the bond money that's under our jurisdiction. >> i'm aware that azul hard contract contracts in the park funds. >> members of the public can go on the website and do a search for the contractors. there is quite a bit information specific to contractors within the public realm. >> great. >> any other comments or questions? >> we will take public comment>> clerk: any members of the public wishing to make a comment, call 415-655-0001, then use the access code and then pound and then pound again. please wait until the system prompt indicates you have been unmuted. please note that yo