Carlo Varini

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Carlo Varini (born August 16, 1946 in Ascona , Switzerland ; † May 18, 2014 in Cathervielle , Pyrenees , France ) was a Swiss cameraman for predominantly French films .

Live and act

Varini came to film as early as 1964 when he started working as a calibrator at the Schwarz Film laboratories in Ostermundigen near Bern . He then took a work course at the Zurich School of Applied Arts. After Varini 1971 briefly as a photographer and reporter for the Ciné-Journal Suisse had worked, he got in 1972 as a camera assistant of Renato Berta first time behind a movie camera. In the first half of the 1970s, he worked mainly for productions Daniel Schmid , middle of the decade was Varini, an early member of the film collective Zurich , even on the intellectual hit movie Jonas who will be 25 years old in 2000, is by Alain Tanner involved. In 1978 he photographed another Tanner film alongside Berta with Messidor , which was highly acclaimed by the critics.

From the beginning of the 1980s, Carlo Varini was primarily responsible as chief cameraman and photographed over 80 films in the remaining 34 years of his life, including celebrated French productions such as Luc Besson's productions Subway and The Last Battle . For his work on Besson's diving film In Rush of the Deep , Varini received a César nomination for the second time after Subway . Varini's later works, including numerous comedy clothes but also melodramas, received little attention outside the francophone world, with the exception of the melancholy masterpiece The Children of Monsieur Mathieu (2004). In 2010 Carlo Varini, who had also had French citizenship since he moved to Paris (1978), received the honorary award at the Solothurn Film Festival.

Filmography

only as a head cameraman

  • 1980: Détournement mineur (short film)
  • 1981: Matlosa
  • 1982: Tenderness and Anger (documentary)
  • 1982: the last fight
  • 1983: Le spectacle (short film)
  • 1984: Ne quittez pas (short film)
  • 1984: Alea (short film)
  • 1985: Subway
  • 1985: A woman to fall in love with (Une femme ou deux)
  • 1986: Genesis
  • 1986: Nuit d'ivresse
  • 1987: In the intoxication of the deep (Le Grand bleu)
  • 1988: Bankomatt
  • 1989: Dark Passion (Les bois noirs)
  • 1990: Mima
  • 1991: Fortune Express
  • 1991: Faces of Switzerland (documentary)
  • 1992: Boulevard des Hirondelles
  • 1993: La nuit sacrée
  • 1994: Bel canto
  • 1994: Jules (TV movie)
  • 1995: Les 2 papas et la maman
  • 1996: Mo '
  • 1996: L'élève
  • 1997: Noël en Quercy
  • 1997: La terza luna
  • 1998: School of Seduction (Petits désordres amoureux)
  • 1998: Bébé volé
  • 1999: recto / verso
  • 2000: Le seins des affaires
  • 2001: Un aller simple
  • 2001: L'héritier
  • 2002: Haute Pierre
  • 2003: Robinson Crusoe
  • 2004: The children of Monsieur Mathieu
  • 2005: Incontrôlable
  • 2006: Odette Toulemonde
  • 2007: Zone labre
  • 2007: Badland
  • 2008: Villa Jasmin
  • 2009: The animal in my heart (Cœur animal)
  • 2009-10: Nicolas le Floch (TV parts)
  • 2010: HH, Hitler à Hollywood
  • 2012: Glauser (documentary)
  • 2013: Cyanure
  • 2013: Win Win
  • 2014: The Inner Zone
  • 2014: Repas de famille
  • 2014: Mirage d'amour avec Fanfare (WP: 2016)

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personal data
SURNAME Varini, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-French cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Ascona , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2014
Place of death Cathervielle , Pyrenees , France