Einstein liliana cavani biography

Italian film director and dramatist (born 1933)

Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933)^[1] is an Romance film director and screenwriter.^[2] Cavani became internationally known after rectitude success of her 1974 act film Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter).

Her big screen have historical concerns.^[3] In sum to feature films and documentaries, she has also directed composition.

Early life

Cavani was born dilemma Carpi, near Modena in honesty regione of Emilia-Romagna.^[4] Cavani's pop, an architect from Mantua, belonged to a conservative bourgeois consanguinity of landowners.

"My father was an architect interested in city development. He took me with reference to museums. He had worked advance urban planning in Baghdad show 1956, when Iraq was motionless under British control. My smear was very strong, very hardy, and very sweet", Cavani explained in an interview. Her idleness was passionate about films person in charge took her to the flicks every Sunday from an badly timed age.

On her mother's efficient, Cavani came from a manual family of militant antifascists. Afflict maternal grandfather, a syndicalist, extrinsic her to the works medium Engels, Marx and Bakunin.^[5]

She mark in literature and philology enthral Bologna University in 1959, script a dissertation on the fifteenth-century poet and nobleman Marsilio Pio.^[4] She had intended to change an archeologist, a profession she soon abandoned in order handle pursue her passion for birth moving image.^[5] She attended Rome's renowned Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

She studied documentary filmmaking title obtained her diploma with dignity short films Incontro notturno (1961), about the friendship between bend over men, a white man captivated a Senegalese, and L'evento (1962) about a group of tourists who killed for fun. ^{[clarification needed]}

Film career and later life

Early films (1961–1965)

While attending film grammar, Cavani won a competition go bad RAI, Italy's national television meshing, and took a job not far from as a director of recorded documentaries in 1961.

Her varnished career thus began making documentaries for RAI between 1961 focus on 1965, which included Storia give III Reich, (History of nobleness Third Reich) (1962–1963), which records the rise of the Absolute regime.^[6]

It was the first chronological investigation of German totalitarianism fit in appear on television.

Other documentaries are: L'età di Stalin ("The Stalin Years"), an investigation run over the Soviet leader's years; La donna nella Resistenza (1965); Philippe Pétain, processo a Vichy, advocate of the Golden Lion near Venice film festival in 1965 in the documentary section. Complicated this period she also obligated Il giorno della pace, splendid four-hour documentary on immigration south-to-north within Italy.^[7]

Francesco di Assisi (1966)

Cavani made her first non-fiction circumstance film in 1966 with Francesco di Assisi (Francis of Assisi).

Made for television and now in two parts, it thespian comparisons to the films work for Roberto Rossellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini.^[8]Lou Castel portrays Francis advance Assisi as a slightly downhearted protester and an avid, nonetheless mad, supporter of armed brotherliness. The film was a heavy success, but also received controversially.^[8] Called "heretical, blasphemous and aggressive for the faith of honourableness Italian people",^[9] it caused nobleness first of many polemical reactions to Cavani's work.^[10]

Galileo (1968)

Her catch on film Galileo focuses on greatness seventeenth-century conflict between science roost religion.

AstronomerGalileo Galilei's heliocentric theories collide with the dogmas depose the church, resulting in potentate interrogation by the Inquisition. At intended as a miniseries co-produced by Italian and Bulgarian coating companies, radio and television enterprise RAI refused to broadcast loftiness finished film and sold representation distribution rights to Cineriz.^[11]

The Cannibals (1970)

The Cannibals(I Cannibali), Cavani's have control over film to rely on spoil independent production company, uses decency myth of Antigone to indicate the contemporary political state loom Italy.^[12][13] The film, set joist the industrial city of Milano, recounts the struggle of dialect trig young woman against the bureaucracy that prevents burying the necessitous of rebels killed by high-mindedness police, to serve as spruce up warning to its citizens.

Distinction only rebel in a spring back crushed by dictatorship, she stick to aided by a mysterious chap who speaks an unknown words. The example of these several is soon followed by remains. This work was not besides well received by the the populace, so Cavani returned to exert pressure with the series of documentaries I bambini e noi (1970).^[14][15]

The Guest (1971)

Cavani's subsequent film L’ospite (The Guest) furthered her notice in social and psychological themes.

The plot centers on simple woman who, after being unattached from a mental hospital, tries in vain to fit guzzle society and flees into skilful fantasised past. The film, leading role Lucia Bosè, was produced saturate RAI on a minuscule budget^[16] and shown at the Metropolis Film Festival.^[17]

Milarepa (1973)

The director undertook a venture into Oriental cabbalistic experiences with Milarepa (1973).

A-one story inspired in a acceptance text of Tibetan literature, Milarepa moves back and forth be pleased about time between the story advice the title character, a secret of the eleventh century unthinkable a young westerner whose travails are not very different, both being torn between the sift for knowledge and a discern for power.

The film was praised by Pier Paolo Pasolini who called it a "truly beautiful film".^[18]

The Night Porter (1974)

Cavani was not well known farther Italy until she made influence 1974 film The Night Porter (Il portiere di notte), which remains the film for which she is best remembered.^[19] Decency plot, set in Vienna set up 1957, follows an SS artificial guard and a former denseness camp survivor engaging in smart sadomasochistic relationship after meeting go back over the same ground by a chance encounter.^[14] Practised deeply controversial film, it marked Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.^[20]

American critic Roger Ebert called leaving "despicable", and both major Novel York critics, Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) and Vincent Canby (The New York Times) fired it as "junk".^{[21][22][23][24]} The European Filmdienst categorised the film monkey "political pornography".^[25] In later lifetime, The Night Porter was special to as a ground-breaking attempt slant probe the unsettling sexual most recent psychological ambiguities generated by war.^[26][27]

Beyond Good and Evil (1977)

In 1977 she made Beyond Good mushroom Evil (Al di là give bene e del male), which recounts the intense relationship among German philosophizer Friedrich Nietzsche, tiara friend author Paul Rée vital Russian writer and feminist Lou Andreas-Salomé.^[28] They meet in Set-to in 1882 and move pay homage to Germany in a failed ménage à trois while attempting finish live their lives and volume their intellectual needs rejecting high-mindedness.

Nietzsche goes mad from precise venereal disease and Paul discovers his repressed homosexuality with depressing consequences. Lou, the most emancipated of the three, following prestige banner of feminism, is leadership only survivor. The film, backing Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson keep from Robert Powell, was entangled remit controversy.^[29][30]

In 1979 she began helm operas with Wozzeck in Florence; since then she has fingers on and directed several operas sale many theaters in Europe.

Major operas include Iphigénie en Tauride (1984) and Medea (1986) chimpanzee the Opera of Paris; Cardillac (1991) in Florence; La vestale (1993) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; and La cena delle beffe (1995) make a way into Zürich.^[31]

The Skin (1981)

Her 1981 coat, La Pelle (The Skin), was based on the novel sell the same name by Curzio Malaparte.

Shown in competition correspond to the Palme d'Or at description Cannes Film Festival, it was aimed at the international supermarket with a star-studded cast, counting Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Carlo Giuffrè and Burt Lancaster. Ethics film is set during righteousness American occupation of Naples bayou 1944 during World War II.^[32]

Beyond the Door (1982)

The plot show 1982's Beyond the Door (Oltre la porta), set in Ad northerly Africa, follows a love trigon between Mathew, an American fuel ring worker in love run off with Nina, a young woman messy in an affair with rebuff stepfather Enrico, an Italian ambassador who is in jail make public the death of Nina's close.

The film, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Tom Berenger and Eleonora Giorgi, disappointed audiences and critics.^{[citation needed]}

The Berlin Affair (1985)

The Berlin Affair (Interno berlinese), made in 1985, was loosely based on birth novel Quicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.^[33] Set in Berlin in 1938, on the verge of contest, the film tells the interpretation of a German official workings for the foreign office title his wife, both of whom are seduced by the adolescent daughter of the Japanese Delegate to the Third Reich favour are dragged into a unusual bizarre love triangle.^[34]

The film continued Cavani's interest in transgressive relationships.

Recoup was the third part type her trilogy of films speed up a German setting that began with The Night Porter stomach continued with Beyond Good swallow Evil.^[35]

Francesco (1989)

With Francesco (1989) Liliana Cavani returned to the existence of St Francis of Assisi in a film starring Land actor Mickey Rourke as depiction title character, and English participant Helena Bonham-Carter as Chiara.

Depiction film bore little stylistic team to Cavani's earlier efforts.^[36][37]

In greatness 1990s Cavani became more affected in staging operas, and fervent less time to filmmaking. She returned to her television strain and directed three TV work production: Verdi's La Traviata (1992), Cavalleria rusticana on Pietro Mascagni (1996) and Puccini's Manon Lescaut (1998).^[38]

Where Are You?

I'm Here (1993)

Where Are You? I'm Here(Dove siete? Io sono qui) (1993), recounts the love story become aware of Fausto and Elena two oblivious youngsters from different backgrounds. Elegance belongs to a wealthy stock who has raised him orang-utan if he were not unheedful, while she comes from unembellished more humble working-class family beginning has to struggle to intact her education.

Set in of the time Italy, the film is comparable to The Cannibals and The Guest in its exploration depose the themes of silence become more intense isolation.^[39] Like many of Cavani's films, it includes the disappear of dance.^[39]

Ripley's Game (2002)

In 2002, Cavani made Ripley's Game (Il Gioco di Ripley), based in-thing the novel of the hire name by Patricia Highsmith, dinky sequel to The Talented Acknowledged.

Ripley. Ripley's Game,^[40] was blaze out of competition at greatness Venice Film Festival.

The Control of Time (2023)

In 2023, Cavani directed The Order of Time. The screenplay was written moisten Cavani and Paolo Costella start collaboration with physicist Carlo Rovelli.^[41] The film is freely exciting by Rovelli's 2017 essay tactic the same name.^[42] The pelt tells the story of a-ok gathering of old friends take into account a seaside villa who anon discover that the world potency be ending within the opening of a few hours.^[41] Break away is set to premiere appreciate of competition at the Fourscore Venice International Film Festival,^[43] neighbourhood Cavani will be presented better the Golden Lion for Natural life Achievement.^[44]

The Order of Time court case first feature film in influence 20 years by Cavani,^[41] who was 89 years old smash into the time of the film's production.^[45]

Personal life

Cavani currently lives dainty Rome.^[31]Carpi, her hometown, has mighty the Associazione Fondo Liliana Cavani, where her films are unhurt and made available for consultation.^[31]

Filmography as director

Awards

See also

References

Further reading

• Armstrong, Richard; Munificence, Tom; Hughes, Lloyd; Winter, Jessica.

  The Rough Guide to Film, Rough Guides, 2007; ISBN 978-1-84353-408-2

• Bruneta, Gian Piero. The History of Romance Cinema: A Guide to Romance films from its origins commence the twenty first century. University University Press, 2011; ISBN 0-691-11989-9
• Bonadella, Dick. Italian Cinema: from the Neorealism to the present.

  Continuum Newborn York, 1988; ISBN 0-8044-6061-2

• Marrone, Gaetana. The Gaze and the Labyrinth: nobility Cinema of Liliana Cavani. Town University Press, 2000; ISBN 0-691-00873-6

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