Carlo Varini

Carlo Varini

Nacimiento : 1946-08-16, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland

Muerte : 2014-05-18

Perfil

Carlo Varini

Películas

Die Innere Zone
Director of Photography
Psychological drama about a tunnel construction in the alps which becomes radioactive.
Nemesis
Director of Photography
Four garbage collectors discover a disoriented young woman, hidden behind a heap of boxes. Charitable, they collect her and provide her with hospitality. One of them has an artist's studio where they usually meet. Secretly falling in love with this pretty and mysterious woman, they will, at first, collect the garbage in record time to get back to her, then considerably slow down the rate when they learn that the young woman is on the run, dangerous, wanted by the police. The four friends begin to regret their simple life of yesteryear.
Animal Heart
Cinematography
Paul vive en las montañas de Suiza, cerca de un bosque. Su esposa Rosine tiene que trabajar duro para él, siempre en peligro de ser violada por su marido como si fuera un animal de su propiedad. Cuando contratan a un nuevo trabajador español, las cosas empiezan a cambiar, puesto que mejora la calidad de vida de los habitantes. Sin embargo, Paul empieza a sentir celos por primera vez y golpea a su esposa hasta casi matarla. Un helicóptero de emergencia la traslada hasta el hospital. Durante su ausencia, Paul se da cuenta de que echa de menos a su esposa y de que no podría vivir sin ella, por lo que decide renunciar a su "corazón de animal". Pero, ¿es posible que su esposa le perdone por los últimos quince años de humillación? ¿Qué puede ofrecerle para salvar su matrimonio? Paul tiene que replantearse todos sus principios y dejar que el animal que ha sido muera en su interior.
Fugueuses
Lighting Director
Badland
Director of Photography
Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
Odette, una comedia sobre la felicidad
Director of Photography
Odette (Catherine Frot) no tiene, aparentemente, ninguna razón para ser feliz, pero lo es. Balthazar (Albert Dupontel) no tiene, aparentemente, ninguna razón para ser infeliz, pero lo es. Odette es una cuarentona torpe que trabaja en la sección de cosméticos de unos grandes almacenes. Sueña con Balthazar Balsan, su escritor favorito, a quién cree que le debe su felicidad. Balsan es un hombre de éxito, atractivo y seductor que está a punto de aparecer inesperadamente en la vida de Odette. Un cuento mágico sobre dos náufragos de la vida a los que les separa todo...
L'homme qui venait d'ailleurs
Director of Photography
At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a colleague. Soon, he is facing something else than racism: fear of foreigner. His office is desperately empty.
Los chicos del coro
Director of Photography
En 1948 Clément Mathieu, profesor de música desempleado, acepta un puesto como profesor vigilante en un internado de reeducación de menores. El sistema represivo aplicado por el director conmociona a Mathieu. Enseñándoles música y canto coral a estos niños tan difíciles, Mathieu transformará sus vidas cotidianas.
L'Héritier
Director of Photography
This Is My Body
Cinematography
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events conspire to draw Antoine towards the same lover.
Sin deseo aparente
Director of Photography
Lionel es un seductor, un mujeriego a la vieja usanza, que despierta pasión entre sus amantes y la envidia de todos sus conocidos. Una noche acude al teatro con Alain, uno de sus mejores amigos, y allí entablan una curiosa conversación sobre el sexo femenino. Mientras Lionel considera a las mujeres románticas y sentimentales, Alain defiende que sólo buscan sexo y diversión. Para demostrarlo propone a su amigo una divertida apuesta: deberá pasar una noche con una mujer elegida al azar, sin mantener ningún tipo de relación sexual.
Elles ne pensent qu'à ça...
Director of Photography
Jess ha intentado suicidarse en Nueva York. Su pareja ya no la satisface sexualmente, pero su padre, su ex y su mejor amigo acuden al rescate.
La nuit sacrée
Director of Photography
A rich Moroccan who belongs to the better circles has seven daughters. Whatever happens, the eighth offspring must be a son. It is a girl again, but she is given a male name, Ahmed and grows up like a boy. When Ahmed is 21, he is in an identity crisis: he wants to shave, leave a mustache and take his niece to wife. In the meantime, Ahmed's father is dying and wants to sail to heaven. He calls to Ahmed and calls her a female name Zahra and gives her freedom so that she can go out.
Boulevard des hirondelles
Director of Photography
Inspired by a story, that of a woman who, in the 1940s, organized a commando operation on Boulevard des Hirondelles to get her lover out of prison.
Fortune Express
Director of Photography
Following a climbing accident in the mountains, Pascal loses the use of his legs and is confined to a wheelchair. The film follows his gradual acceptance of this during his stay in a rehabilitation centre and, with the support of fellow residents, the return of his will to live.
Bankomatt
Cinematography
With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself in to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Bruno Ganz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing, but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.
El gran azul
Director of Photography
Jacques Mayol es un joven francés con un talento especial para el buceo, y ayuda al profesor Lawrence en sus experimentos marinos. Cuando era niño y vivía en una pequeña población griega junto a su gran amigo Enzo Molinari, ahora campeón de buceo en apnea, Jacques perdió a su padre, que trabajaba como buzo, pero a pesar de ello ama al mar por encima de todo. Nada de lo que tiene o consigue en la vida le llena tanto como estar bajo el agua.
The Little Coquette
Director of Photography
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.
Genesis
Cinematography
This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Shah), a weaver (Om Puri), a trader (M.K. Raina), and a woman (Shabana Azmi). At the beginning of the story, the workers in a decaying village are offered food and water if they work for the local lords. The farmer and the weaver refuse. The farmer grows food for them both, and the weaver creates textiles that uses to barter with an itinerant trader. One day a frightened, lonely woman arrives on the scene and she is taken in by the two men. She cooks and cleans, and before long becomes a source of contention. Meanwhile, the trader is observing these events from the sidelines.
Terrorists in Retirement
Director of Photography
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
Subway (En busca de Freddy)
Director of Photography
Fred (Christopher Lambert) vive en el metro de París y sobrevive a base de pequeños robos. Héléna (Isabelle Adjani) es la bella esposa de un millonario al que Fred acaba de robar. Ella necesita recuperar los documentos robados; él quiere casarse con ella y montar un grupo de rock con un batería (Jean Reno) y un bajo (Éric Serra). Con la mafia y la policía siguiéndoles los talones, ambos buscan refugio en el laberinto del metro. Así empieza una aventura por un mundo subterráneo, poblado por los seres más extraños. (FILMAFFINITY)
El misterio de Laura
Director of Photography
Una ejecutiva de publicidad (Sigourney Weaver) decide hacerse pasar por una profesora de arqueología para librarse de un obsesivo ex-novio. Cuenta para ello con la ayuda de un desafortunado arqueólogo (Gérard Depardieu) que se encuentra en un aeropuerto para recoger a su verdadera mujer.
Kamikaze 1999 (El último combate)
Cinematography
Violenta y apocalíptica historia ambientada en un futuro posnuclear en el que una atmósfera contaminada impide a la población hablar. La supervivencia del día a día es la única regla a seguir, pero un hombre intentará construir un avión con el que partir a la búsqueda del amor. Una extraña y atípica historia sin diálogos y en blanco y negro con la que Luc Besson se estrena como director a los 23 años de edad.
Matlosa
Cinematography
A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he searches for his past.
L'Avant Dernier
Cinematography
A man wanders through a wrecked, dystopian city, finding violence everywhere he turns.