Luchino Visconti a toujours rêvé d’adapter A la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust. Il s’est même très sérieusement attelé à ce projet. Dès 1970, les repérages ont lieu : Visconti se rend en Normandie, sur les plages de Balbec avec son fidèle chef décorateur Mario Garbulia. En 1971, le scénario est fin prêt grace au travail acharné du cinéaste et de sa scénariste, la gra...
A Dominique Maillet’s documentary about Visconti in the set of “Conversation Piece”.
Catello is a “rag doll”, a small second-hand clothes retailer who dreams of becoming a costume designer. These “pieces” leave every day from his warehouse in Ercolano and arrive in the most prestigious tailors in the world to dress the best actors of Italian and international cinema. In these splendid ateliers, Piero Tosi, Gabriella Pescucci, Colleen Atwood and Claudia Cardinal...
The movie is shot almost like a mystery: through the testimony of actors, directors and friends, what is revealed is the human energy and the life of one of our most courageous and liberated producers. The intention is to go "beyond" the traditional biographical documentary, constructing the account in a composite style, which mixes unusual "offstage" inserts with more traditio...
Tells the life of the great Italian actress Alida Valli through her private writings, which are disclosed for the very first time. Alida had a mysterious and fascinating personality, often deliberately impenetrable. Her story was extraordinary, unique and intriguing, a continuous swing of joy and pain, made of difficult choices, but always sincere. Love and art conditioned and ...
It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmüller.
This fascinating documentary examines this influential director's life,exploring how his experiences and background offered the making of such groudbreaking films as Obsession,Senso,the Leopard,Death in Venice and The Damned,as well as his career as a theater and opera director.
Top actors Alain Delon,Burt Lancaster,Marcello Mastroianni,Vittorio Gassman and Claudia Cardinale...
