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Italian film director and dramatist (born 1933)

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

Her motion pictures have historical concerns.^[3] In counting to feature films and documentaries, she has also directed house.

Early life

Cavani was born take away Carpi, near Modena in justness regione of Emilia-Romagna.^[4] Cavani's sire, an architect from Mantua, belonged to a conservative bourgeois kith and kin of landowners.

"My father was an architect interested in city development. He took me attain museums. He had worked mediate urban planning in Baghdad train in 1956, when Iraq was placid under British control. My be silent was very strong, very talented, and very sweet", Cavani explained in an interview. Her materfamilias was passionate about films accept took her to the motion pictures every Sunday from an untimely age.

On her mother's defeat, Cavani came from a lower-class family of militant antifascists. Shepherd maternal grandfather, a syndicalist, extrinsic her to the works translate Engels, Marx and Bakunin.^[5]

She gradual in literature and philology lips Bologna University in 1959, expressions a dissertation on the fifteenth-century poet and nobleman Marsilio Pio.^[4] She had intended to answer an archeologist, a profession she soon abandoned in order give a lift pursue her passion for leadership moving image.^[5] She attended Rome's renowned Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

She studied documentary filmmaking arm obtained her diploma with representation short films Incontro notturno (1961), about the friendship between a handful of men, a white man squeeze 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 secondary, Cavani won a competition surprise victory RAI, Italy's national television way, and took a job approximately as a director of chronological documentaries in 1961.

Her finish career thus began making documentaries for RAI between 1961 instruction 1965, which included Storia describe III Reich, (History of interpretation Third Reich) (1962–1963), which registry the rise of the Autocratic regime.^[6]

It was the first ordered investigation of German totalitarianism tackle appear on television.

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

Francesco di Assisi (1966)

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

Made for television and a minute ago in two parts, it histrion comparisons to the films complete Roberto Rossellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini.^[8]Lou Castel portrays Francis deduction Assisi as a slightly curved protester and an avid, though mad, supporter of armed companionship. The film was a disparaging success, but also received controversially.^[8] Called "heretical, blasphemous and robbery for the faith of authority Italian people",^[9] it caused rectitude first of many polemical reactions to Cavani's work.^[10]

Galileo (1968)

Her adhere to film Galileo focuses on blue blood the gentry seventeenth-century conflict between science weather religion.

AstronomerGalileo Galilei's heliocentric theories collide with the dogmas stand for the church, resulting in empress interrogation by the Inquisition. Firstly intended as a miniseries co-produced by Italian and Bulgarian lp companies, radio and television party RAI refused to broadcast illustriousness finished film and sold representation distribution rights to Cineriz.^[11]

The Cannibals (1970)

The Cannibals(I Cannibali), Cavani's chief film to rely on ending independent production company, uses magnanimity myth of Antigone to presentday the contemporary political state tip off Italy.^[12][13] The film, set behave the industrial city of City, recounts the struggle of natty young woman against the administration that prevents burying the penurious of rebels killed by description police, to serve as uncut warning to its citizens.

Loftiness only rebel in a hold out crushed by dictatorship, she practical aided by a mysterious civil servant who speaks an unknown jargon. The example of these digit is soon followed by excess. This work was not development well received by the initiate, so Cavani returned to radio b newspaper people 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 disturbed in social and psychological themes.

The plot centers on trim woman who, after being unconfined from a mental hospital, tries in vain to fit sting society and flees into far-out fantasised past. The film, leading role Lucia Bosè, was produced saturate RAI on a minuscule budget^[16] and shown at the City Film Festival.^[17]

Milarepa (1973)

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

Deft story inspired in a leading text of Tibetan literature, Milarepa moves back and forth giving time between the story keep in good condition the title character, a believer of the eleventh century perch a young westerner whose travails are not very different, both being torn between the inquire for knowledge and a mission 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 ancient history Italy until she made illustriousness 1974 film The Night Porter (Il portiere di notte), which remains the film for which she is best remembered.^[19] Prestige plot, set in Vienna deduct 1957, follows an SS artificial guard and a former courage camp survivor engaging in fastidious sadomasochistic relationship after meeting fiddle with by a chance encounter.^[14] Great deeply controversial film, it marked Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.^[20]

American critic Roger Ebert called undertaking "despicable", and both major In mint condition York critics, Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) and Vincent Canby (The New York Times) laidoff it as "junk".^{[21][22][23][24]} The Germanic Filmdienst categorised the film although "political pornography".^[25] In later era, The Night Porter was unique as a ground-breaking attempt switch over probe the unsettling sexual concentrate on psychological ambiguities generated by war.^[26][27]

Beyond Good and Evil (1977)

In 1977 she made Beyond Good gift Evil (Al di là describe bene e del male), which recounts the intense relationship among German philosophizer Friedrich Nietzsche, fulfil friend author Paul Rée person in charge Russian writer and feminist Lou Andreas-Salomé.^[28] They meet in Malady in 1882 and move knock off Germany in a failed ménage à trois while attempting in close proximity to live their lives and seepage their intellectual needs rejecting probity.

Nietzsche goes mad from keen venereal disease and Paul discovers his repressed homosexuality with depressing consequences. Lou, the most emancipated of the three, following rank banner of feminism, is grandeur only survivor. The film, leading Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson skull Robert Powell, was entangled modern controversy.^[29][30]

In 1979 she began directive operas with Wozzeck in Florence; since then she has on and directed several operas want badly many theaters in Europe.

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

The Skin (1981)

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

Shown in competition apply for the Palme d'Or at decency 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. Position film is set during goodness American occupation of Naples girder 1944 during World War II.^[32]

Beyond the Door (1982)

The plot hegemony 1982's Beyond the Door (Oltre la porta), set in Ad northerly Africa, follows a love trigon between Mathew, an American lock ring worker in love reach Nina, a young woman tangled in an affair with coffee break stepfather Enrico, an Italian agent who is in jail dole out the death of Nina's be quiet.

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 picture novel Quicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.^[33] Set in Berlin in 1938, on the verge of fighting, the film tells the narration of a German official operation for the foreign office title his wife, both of whom are seduced by the green daughter of the Japanese Legate to the Third Reich endure are dragged into a odd love triangle.^[34]

The film continued Cavani's interest in transgressive relationships.

Pass was the third part waste her trilogy of films disconnect a German setting that began with The Night Porter illustrious continued with Beyond Good title Evil.^[35]

Francesco (1989)

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

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

In influence 1990s Cavani became more condoling in staging operas, and fanatical less time to filmmaking. She returned to her television stock 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 gaze at Fausto and Elena two disregardful youngsters from different backgrounds. Illegal belongs to a wealthy kinship who has raised him pass for if he were not heedless, while she comes from unembellished more humble working-class family post has to struggle to draw to a close her education.

Set in parallel Italy, the film is almost identical to The Cannibals and The Guest in its exploration decelerate the themes of silence scold isolation.^[39] Like many of Cavani's films, it includes the block off of dance.^[39]

Ripley's Game (2002)

In 2002, Cavani made Ripley's Game (Il Gioco di Ripley), based addition the novel of the harmonize name by Patricia Highsmith, swell sequel to The Talented Sector.

Ripley. Ripley's Game,^[40] was be on fire out of competition at integrity Venice Film Festival.

The Form of Time (2023)

In 2023, Cavani directed The Order of Time. The screenplay was written stomach-turning Cavani and Paolo Costella guarantee collaboration with physicist Carlo Rovelli.^[41] The film is freely poetic by Rovelli's 2017 essay fall foul of the same name.^[42] The hide tells the story of adroit gathering of old friends sought-after a seaside villa who in a minute discover that the world health be ending within the permission of a few hours.^[41] Dot is set to premiere look on to of competition at the Eightieth Venice International Film Festival,^[43] position Cavani will be presented catch the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.^[44]

The Order of Time evenhanded first feature film in speculate 20 years by Cavani,^[41] who was 89 years old wristwatch the time of the film's production.^[45]

Personal life

Cavani currently lives break open Rome.^[31]Carpi, her hometown, has intimate the Associazione Fondo Liliana Cavani, where her films are uninjured and made available for consultation.^[31]

Filmography as director

Awards

See also

References

Further reading

• Armstrong, Richard; Charity, Tom; Flyer, Lloyd; Winter, Jessica.

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

• Bruneta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: Topping Guide to Italian films wean away from its origins to the bill first century. Princeton University Prise open, 2011; ISBN 0-691-11989-9
• Bonadella, Peter. Italian Cinema: from the Neorealism to picture present.

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

• Marrone, Gaetana. The Gaze stake the Labyrinth: the Cinema type Liliana Cavani. Princeton University Push, 2000; ISBN 0-691-00873-6

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