Maria Antonietta Beluzzi

Beluzzi is a redirect to this article. For other people, see Belluzzi .

Maria Antonietta Beluzzi (born July 26, 1930 in Bologna , † August 9, 1997 there ) was an Italian actress .

Beluzzi was seen in a few Italian feature films in the 1960s and 1970s; She went down in film history through her supporting role in Federico Fellini's autobiographical film Amarcord (1973). Here she plays a nameless, full-figured tobacco trader ( la tabaccaia ), who first challenges the protagonist Titta (played by a young Bruno Zanin ) to pick her up and then presses her monumental breasts in his face with a touch of lustful abandon. Beluzzi's appearance, like Anita Ekberg's memorable bath in the Fontana di Trevi (in La Dolce Vita ), is often cited as evidence of Fellini's preference for “full women”. David Rakoff explains that Beluzzi with her enormous, almost grotesque breasts was cast for this scene by the fact that Amarcord (literally “I remember”) is ultimately a look back at the time of puberty , i.e. the awakening of sexuality; Beluzzi's angora- wrapped breasts - initially "unyielding as a continental shelf" and protruding from her torso at an improbable angle like a building by Frank Gehry , resembling a non-Newtonian fluid but also unexpectedly plastic and malleable - thus represented a hypertrophic ideal of the female breast , a symbol of motherliness (Italian mamma means both "mother" and "bosom"). Beluzzi's performance is also a recurring theme in John Irving's novel Until I Find You (2005).

Filmography

• 1963: La vita provvisoria
• 1963: eight and a half (8 ½)
• 1973; Amarcord (Amarcord)
• 1974: L'erotomane
• 1974: Playful nights and days (Il piatto piange)
• 1975: Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
• 1976: Per amore di Cesarina
• 1976: Stella - dedicated to a star (Dedicato a una stella)
• 1977: L'inquilina del piano di sopra

Web links

• Maria Antonietta Beluzzi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• David Rakoff : Amarcord , Part 4 of the Golden Globes: A Literate Look at the 50 Most Unforgettable Breasts in Movie History . In: GQ (online edition), February 2005.