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| Bernardo
Bertolucci |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter |
| 1940 - |
| Born March 16,
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Key
Production Countries: Italy, France, UK
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Key Genres:
Drama, Psychological Drama, Political Drama, Erotic Drama |
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Collaborators: Vittorio
Storaro (Cinematographer), Ennio Morricone (Composer), Giovanni Bertolucci (Producer/Screenwriter), Jeremy Thomas (Producer), Gabriella Cristiani (Editor), Stefania Sandrelli (Character Player),
Alain Midgette (Character Player), Gianni Silvestri (Production Designer),
Mark Peploe (Screenwriter), Alida Valli
(Leading Character Player) |
| Highly
Recommended: The
Conformist (1969) |
| Recommended:
The Spider's Stratagem (1970),
The
Last Emperor (1987) |
| Worth
a Look: La Commare Secca (1962), Before the Revolution (1964), Last Tango in Paris (1973), 1900 (1976), Luna (1979),
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981), The Sheltering
Sky (1990), Little Buddha (1993), Stealing Beauty (1995), Besieged (1998) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference
] [ Bertolucci
Core ] [ Guardian
Unlimited Interview (2001) ] [ 1989
BBC Interview ] [
Baseline
Biography ] [
Bright Lights Film Journal Article (2006) ] [
Guardian Article (2008) ] |
| Books:
[
Bernardo Bertolucci ] [
Bernardo Bertolucci: The Cinema of Ambiguity ] [ Bernardo
Bertolucci: Interviews ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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Greatest Films:
Before the Revolution (1964),
The Conformist (1969), The Spider's Stratagem
(1970), Last Tango in Paris (1973), 1900 (1976) |
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"At the age
of twenty-one, Bernardo Bertolucci established himself as a
major artist in two distinct art forms, winning a prestigious
award in poetry and receiving high critical acclaim for his
initial film, La commare secca. This combination of
talents is evident in all of his films, which have a lyric but
exceptionally concrete style." -
Robert Burgoyne (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998) |
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"One of the
cinema's greatest masters of visual beauty, especially when
assisted by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, Bertolucci's films
are also dramatically naive and pretentious far too often, even
addled at times, resulting in risible scenes even when respected
actors are used. But at least the nine Oscars won by The Last
Emperor, one of his three near-masterpieces, have assured
that Bertolucci will not simply go down in history as the man
who made Last Tango in Paris." - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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"One of the
most accomplished directors of the contemporary Italian
cinema...Bertolucci, who believes that "cinema is the true
poetic language", had applied his celluloid poesy mostly to
political-human themes, but with Last Tango in Paris
(1972) he moved into the realm of the purely human. It
established Bertolucci as a commercially viable director as well
as a highly gifted one." - (The
MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994) |
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"The psychological and intellectual man in society has been
brilliantly explored by Bertolucci." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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"I'm no longer interested in
making political films. There's something old-fashioned about
them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present
in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which
reflect present-day reality." -
Bernardo Bertolucci (1999) |
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