Subversive films playing the stuffing and outrage, the first woman to have been nominated at the Hollywood Oscar of the staging, the director died on December 8, at the age of 93 years.
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Extravagant and iconoclastic figure of Italian cinema, at the jovial look faithful to its white front glasses, the first film filmmaker to have been nominated at the Hollywood Oscar of the direction (it was in 1977, for Pasqualino), Lina Wertmüller died on December 8, in Rome, at the age of 93 years.
Born on August 14, 1928 in Rome, Arcgela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Brauich, daughter of a Swiss lawyer, expelled from eleven Catholic high schools, becomes a teacher before choosing the theater of puppets, to found a troop avant-garde, to become assistant of Federico Fellini on eight and a half. She gets this privilege thanks to a school friend, Flora Carabella, who presents her to her husband, a certain Mastroianni Marcello. Neorealist chronicle of a group of Vitelloni from southern Italy, inspired by its family history, its first film, I Basilischi (1963), displays the influence of the Maestro Author of Amarcord. Fellini will remain its reference. It is awarded at the Locarno Festival.
A carnival vein
It was in 1972 that his reputation crosses the borders, thanks to Mimi Metallo wounded in his honor, comedy of Sicilian manners who launched two actors, Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The figures of this favorite couple will often be gathered in front of its camera. The Dark and Guignolesque macho, the flamboyant vociferant, assert, well in flesh, high color whores, strong prodigal ogresses in Rots and Pets. Mimi Metallo … is a Picraonsque Vaudeville on a Sicilian worker between a mafia clan and a volcanic wife. He reveals a clean style of the director, a carnival vein, playing on the grotesque, alternating the close ups on monstrous trognes and overwrought trivial scenes.
The length of the title of his films is one of his trademarks. One of them appears in the Guiness Records Book (Fatto di Sang Fra Due Uomini Per Causa di Una Vedova – If Sospettano Moveti Politici, or “makes blood between two men because of a widow – political grounds are suspected “, to which the translation of love and blood will have been preferred in French version).
Lina Wertmüller signs two movies the following year. Film of love and anarchy depicts an anarchist peasant hidden in a closed house and determined to murder Mussolini; It is worth at the Expressionist Giancarlo Giannini the male interpretation price in Cannes. Everyone in his post and nothing will follow the course of southern emigrants in search of work, from the cook to the maid, the thief to the prostitute. The filmmaker will resume the title of this film to publish his memoirs in 2012, at Mondadori.
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