Cristina Comencini

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Cristina Comencini (born May 8, 1956 in Rome ) is an Italian screenwriter , writer and director .

biography

Origin and education

Cristina Comencini is the daughter of the film director Luigi Comencini , a Waldensian Protestant, and the Catholic Princess Giulia Grifeo di Partanna , who comes from the Neapolitan branch of a noble Sicilian family. Because of the frequent absence of her father, she grew up in a “women's household” with her mother and three sisters. Although the film had a strong influence on family life, Luigi Comencini otherwise tried his best to keep his daughters away from the film business. However, in 1969 Cristina played a smaller role in his film Childhood, Vocation and First Experiences of the Venetian Giacomo Casanova .

Cristina Comencini attended the Lycée Chateaubriand di Roma and passed the French and Italian Abitur exams. She then studied economics and immediately found appropriate work after graduation, including as a business journalist. However, their interest in economics had largely waned. She wanted to be a writer, wrote stories and a novel.

Author and filmmaker

Cristina Comencini gave up her profession and wrote the script for her father with Suso Cecchi D'Amico for his film Il matrimonio di Caterina (1982). She left her first novel in the drawer and sent a second to Natalia Ginzburg under a pseudonym . She responded enthusiastically, got in touch with Cristina Comencini and encouraged her to follow her calling.

She wrote other scripts and made her debut as a director in 1988 with Longing for Freedom . In the film about childlike imagination and friendship, for which Cristina Comencini wrote the screenplay - as in all of her subsequent directing work - the daughter of the night watchman of the Rome zoo meets a stray boy and finally runs off with him and an elephant. Longing for freedom was the first major role of the then thirteen year old Asia Argento .

This was followed in 1992 by the “Comedy of Errors” set at the time of the French Revolution , I divertimenti della vita privata , “a provocative and ambitious film” with Giancarlo Giannini . Cristina's sister Paola Comencini received a nomination for the David di Donatello film award for the production design .

Comencini's third directorial work was the 1992 thriller Netz der Past , followed in 1995 by the drama Go, Where Your Heart Carries You , for which the leading actress Virna Lisi received the Italian Film Critics Prize. Matrimoni (1998) is a comedy starring Francesca Neri . Supporting actress Cecilia Dazzi received a David for the film and she herself was nominated for “Best Screenplay”. In 2000 she made the comedy Liberate i pesci! with Michele Placido and in 2002 the drama The most beautiful day of my life , again with Virna Lisi in the leading role. Cristina Comencini received several awards for the film "about the relationship to loyalty, to one's own body, to sex", including the Grand Prix of the Americas at the World Film Festival in Montreal .

In 2005 she filmed her own novel, Die Bestie im Herz . In the film, a pregnant voice actress played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno is harassed by long-lost childhood memories of abuse by her deceased father. The numerous awards for the film included a nomination for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film . In January 2008, Comencini's comedy Bianco e nero premiered, a film about an Italian's love for a Senegalese woman who has lived in Italy for ten years . In March 2009, Enzo Monteleone's film adaptation of Comencini's theatrical comedy Due partite was released in Italian cinemas, with Margherita Buy in one of the leading roles. In 2011 she received another invitation to compete at the 68th Venice International Film Festival for the love drama Quando la notte, set in the Italian Alps .

family

Cristina Comencini has two daughters and a son. Her daughter Giulia Calenda was the co-author of The Most Beautiful Day of My Life , La bestia nel cuore and Bianco e nero . Cristina's sisters are also active in the film business. Paola is successful as a production designer and Eleonora was production manager. Francesca Comencini (* 1961) is also an award-winning screenwriter and director. Cristina and Francesca Comencini received the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2005 .

Filmography as a director

  • 1989: Longing for Freedom (Zoo)
  • 1992: I divertimenti della vita privata
  • 1993: The Network of the Past (La fine è nota)
  • 1996: Go where your heart takes you (Va 'dove ti porta il cuore)
  • 1998: Matrimoni
  • 2000: Liberate i pesci!
  • 2002: The most beautiful day of my life (Il più bel giorno della mia vita)
  • 2005: The beast in the heart (La bestia nel cuore)
  • 2008: Bianco e nero

Novels

  • 1991: Pagine strappate (German = The missing diary pages. Munich: Piper 1997. ISBN 978-3-492-22280-8 )
  • 1994: Passione di famiglia
  • 1997: Il cappotto del turco (German = waiting for Isabella , Malik, 2002, ISBN 978-3-89029-137-6 )
  • 2002: Matrioska
  • 2005: La bestia nel cuore
  • 2007: L'illusione del bene
  • 2009: Quando la notte
    • German: Only in the night. Novel . Translated from the Italian by Sigrun Zühlke. Munich: Piper 2011. ISBN 978-3-492-25960-6

Play

  • 2006: Due partite

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cristina Comencini: Chi sono , accessed on March 18, 2009
  2. ↑ prisma-online: Longing for Freedom , accessed on February 15, 2008
  3. ↑ La Repubblica, review of I divertimenti della vita privata , 1990  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , quoted according to the press review of C. Comencini's website, accessed on February 16, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cristinacomencini.it  
  4. ↑ Interview with Cristina Comencini about The Most Beautiful Day in My Life ( Memento from August 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 16, 2008
  5. ↑ Brigitte.de: La bestia nel cuore  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 16, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.brigitte.de  
  6. ^ Due partite, un film di Enzo Monteleone , accessed on 19 Mar 2009
  7. ^ Presidenza della Repubblica: Le Onorificenze , accessed April 18, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Comencini, Cristina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director, writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome