Roberto Faenza
Roberto Faenza (born February 21, 1943 in Turin ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Career
Faenza attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and graduated in directing. After a few short films, immediately afterwards, in 1968, he brought two films to the cinemas as a director. Escalation was a fable directed against capitalist society and its constraints on individual freedom. H2S pursued a similar theme, but was set in a bizarre science fiction world. It was only shown in cinemas in 1971.
After studying political science at the University of Pisa, Faenza put on the montage film Forza Italia! a criticism of the Democrazia Cristiana and its representatives. In 1979 the grotesque comedy Si salvi che vuole followed . Faenza's next film was made with Harvey Keitel , The Copkiller, shot in the United States .
After a break for a few years, Faenza released a film in 1989 with Mio caro dottor Gräsler that showed his willingness to tell more linear stories that were dedicated to remarkable personalities: works based on novels by Jona Oberski and Antonio Tabucchi , the biography, were created Marianna Ucrìa after Dacia Maraini and in 1999 L'amante perduto , a discussion of the Palestinian-Israeli problem. Most of the films received praise and generated public interest.
In the new millennium, films followed that continued Faenza's successes: Prendimi l'anima was chosen for the Italian film prize Nastro d'Argento for his screenplay , Alla luce del sole , which is considered his masterpiece, tells the story of the mafia victim Don Pino Puglisi and was awarded a David di Donatello . After two more films in 2005 and 2007, a comedy based on Michael Viewegh was released two years later with Il caso dell'infedele Klara .
In 2011, Silvio forever, an unauthorized biography of Silvio Berlusconi , was published, with Faenza again resorting to the technique of montage film.
Faenza is also the author of numerous essays and books on film and current affairs.
Private life
In the late 1960s, Faenza met the former model Benedetta Barzini . The couple married in 1969. Faenza left Barzini two years later on the day they had twin children.
Filmography
- 1968: Escalation (Escalation)
- 1968: H2S
- 1977: Forza Italia! (Documentary)
- 1979: Si salve chi Vuole
- 1982: Copkiller (Copkiller)
- 1989: The bath doctor (Mio caro dottor Gräsler)
- 1993: Jona che visse nella balena
- 1995: Declared Pereira (Sostiene Pereira)
- 1996: The Mute Duchess (Marianna Ucrìa)
- 1999: L'amante perduto
- 2002: Prendimi l'anima
- 2004: Alla luce del sole
- 2005: I giorni dell'abbandono
- 2007: I vicere
- 2009: IL caso dell'infedele Klara
- 2011: Silvio forever (documentary)
- 2011: Someday this pain will be useful to you
Web links
- Roberto Faenza in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Faenza at italica.rai
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 165
- ↑ Faenza at mymovies
- ↑ Interview with Faenza about the film
- ↑ a b Once a 'Vogue' Star, Benedetta Barzini Is Now Fashion's La Pasionaria in People, Vol. 8, No. 2, July 11, 1977
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faenza, Roberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |