Francesca Archibugi
Nacimiento : 1960-05-16, Roma, Lazio, Italia
Historia
Directora de cine italiana nacida en Roma. Durante su adolescencia trabaja de modelo y más tarde, es elegida para representar el papel de Ottilia en una serie de Rai Uno, dirigida en 1979 por Gianni Amico, basada en "Las afinidades electivas" de Goethe. Sucesivamente, se da cuenta que lo más importante para ella es ser directora de cine y se inscribe en el Centro Experimental de Cinematografía (1980-83). Después, asiste a los cursos de la escuela de Bassano de Ermanno Olmi y a los de guionista de Furio Scarpelli; como actriz, aparece en algunas películas de inicios de los ochenta como, por ejemplo, La caduta degli angeli ribelli (1981) de Marco Tullio Giordana. En 1988 rueda su primera película Mignon è partita, simpática historia de adolescentes que oscila entre la comedia y lo sentimental, bien interpretada por unos óptimos actores. La crítica se muestra favorable a dicha película, pero queda desconcertada ante la siguiente, Verso sera (1990), historia desequilibrada de una vejez que transcurre entre lo sabio y lo arisco, mezclada con temas políticos tratados con torpeza. La gran calabaza (1993), en la cual se describe un problema de neuropsiquiatría infantil a través de una mirada atenta y sensible recibe mejores críticas; sin embargo, la crítica queda de nuevo perpleja ante Con los ojos cerrados (1995), fría y cerebral adaptación de la homónima novela de Federigo Tozzi, y L'albero delle pere (1998), novela de formación, dogmática, llena de clichés y con unos diálogos banales.
Screenplay
Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in touch with. Tragedy and fate seem to haunt him, yet he somehow manages never to get ensnared in the chaos—like his namesake, “the hummingbird”, he focuses all his energy at standing still.
Director
Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in touch with. Tragedy and fate seem to haunt him, yet he somehow manages never to get ensnared in the chaos—like his namesake, “the hummingbird”, he focuses all his energy at standing still.
Screenplay
In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
Screenplay
Self
Opera Prima is a tribute and a journey through the evolution that cinema has had in Italy. Tayu Vlietstra, a pupil of Bertolucci, carries out an investigation on the first work of six of the most authoritative and beloved Italian directors. The result is an unpublished and precious document that reveals the emotions and expectations of directors grappling with their cinematic debut. Mario Monicelli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lina Wertmüller, Marco Bellocchio, Liliana Cavani and Francesca Archibugi offer a still current evolution on the needs and difficulties of making cinema in our country.
Story
In a respectable suburb made up of row houses, Luca Attorre — a freelance journalist who struggles to get his features published in the papers — is unable to maintain Susi, a ballerina reduced to teaching dance to overweight women, and Lucilla, their quiet and imaginative six-year- old daughter who suffers from severe bronchial asthma. They are helped economically by Pierpaolo, Luca’s seventeen-year-old son from a previous relationship. Pierpaolo lives in an Art Nouveau house with his mother and grandfather, an important trial lawyer of cases linked to politics who rakes in several million euros a year. In the setting of a magnificent and incomprehensible Rome, both a good mother and a bad one, Mary Ann, a deeply Catholic student of art history from Ireland, au pair for the little Lucilla, is caught in the middle.
Screenplay
In a respectable suburb made up of row houses, Luca Attorre — a freelance journalist who struggles to get his features published in the papers — is unable to maintain Susi, a ballerina reduced to teaching dance to overweight women, and Lucilla, their quiet and imaginative six-year- old daughter who suffers from severe bronchial asthma. They are helped economically by Pierpaolo, Luca’s seventeen-year-old son from a previous relationship. Pierpaolo lives in an Art Nouveau house with his mother and grandfather, an important trial lawyer of cases linked to politics who rakes in several million euros a year. In the setting of a magnificent and incomprehensible Rome, both a good mother and a bad one, Mary Ann, a deeply Catholic student of art history from Ireland, au pair for the little Lucilla, is caught in the middle.
Director
In a respectable suburb made up of row houses, Luca Attorre — a freelance journalist who struggles to get his features published in the papers — is unable to maintain Susi, a ballerina reduced to teaching dance to overweight women, and Lucilla, their quiet and imaginative six-year- old daughter who suffers from severe bronchial asthma. They are helped economically by Pierpaolo, Luca’s seventeen-year-old son from a previous relationship. Pierpaolo lives in an Art Nouveau house with his mother and grandfather, an important trial lawyer of cases linked to politics who rakes in several million euros a year. In the setting of a magnificent and incomprehensible Rome, both a good mother and a bad one, Mary Ann, a deeply Catholic student of art history from Ireland, au pair for the little Lucilla, is caught in the middle.
Screenplay
Italia, 1990. En la noche en que la selección nacional de fútbol de Italia es eliminada de la Copa del Mundo por Argentina en los penales, un conocido productor de cine es encontrado muerto en el río Tíber. Los principales sospechosos del asesinato son tres jóvenes aspirantes a guionistas, detenidos frente a los Carabinieri para contar su versión de lo ocurrido.
Screenplay
John es despistado pero tenaz. Ella es frágil pero ingeniosa. Juntos inician un viaje por Estados Unidos huyendo del asfixiante cuidado de sus médicos e hijos. Desde Boston hasta Key West, la pareja recorre una América que no reconocen a bordo de su vieja autocaravana. El viaje les hará compartir buenos y malos momentos a la vez que les devolverá su amor y pasión por la vida.
Writer
Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, eating, talking about nothing and playing video games. Until one day when he suddenly informs his father that he would join him in this trip. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, at the end, somehow father and son will find the way to communicate … or at least they will try.
Director
Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, eating, talking about nothing and playing video games. Until one day when he suddenly informs his father that he would join him in this trip. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, at the end, somehow father and son will find the way to communicate … or at least they will try.
Screenplay
Beatrice es una condesa charlatana y millonaria que está convencida de encontrarse entre los círculos íntimos de los líderes políticos mundiales. Por su parte Donatella es una joven tatuada, vulnerable e introvertida, envuelta en su propio halo de misterio. Ambas son pacientes de Villabiondi, una delirante institución psiquiátrica.
Screenplay
Amigos y familiares se reúnen para cenar juntos. La noche comienza tranquila y divertida. Pero de repente Paolo y Simona deciden anunciarles a los allí presentes el nombre del futuro bebé que van a tener: Benito. El hecho de llevar el mismo nombre que Mussolini, va a provocar un debate donde todas las personas no van a dudar en ofenderse y herirse entre ellas. Viejos rencores y secretos van a salir a la luz.
Director
Amigos y familiares se reúnen para cenar juntos. La noche comienza tranquila y divertida. Pero de repente Paolo y Simona deciden anunciarles a los allí presentes el nombre del futuro bebé que van a tener: Benito. El hecho de llevar el mismo nombre que Mussolini, va a provocar un debate donde todas las personas no van a dudar en ofenderse y herirse entre ellas. Viejos rencores y secretos van a salir a la luz.
Self
A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.
Writer
“I approached Pierluigi Cappello when he became my bedside table companion. We didn’t know each other, but were already intimate. His poems are full of images, I might even have dreamt some. I didn’t know anything about his personal life, about the motorcycle accident when he was sixteen, and that he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There’s no trace of it in the poems: in his verses Pierluigi runs, and sometimes he flies.”
Director
“I approached Pierluigi Cappello when he became my bedside table companion. We didn’t know each other, but were already intimate. His poems are full of images, I might even have dreamt some. I didn’t know anything about his personal life, about the motorcycle accident when he was sixteen, and that he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There’s no trace of it in the poems: in his verses Pierluigi runs, and sometimes he flies.”
Self
A portrait of Laura Betti with archival footage and stories of friends: Bernardo Bertolucci remembers Laura in "Novecento" and in a lost sequence of "Last Tango in Paris", Giacomo Marramao and Walter Siti dwell on the relationship with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francesca Archibugi remembers a precious friend, Michelle Kokosowski and Jack Lang talk about the successful and mutual love for France, Piero Tosi and Paolo Poli remember her youth, Jacqueline Risset her private life, Valentino Parlato her civic passion, Renato Nicolini recaps her difficult relationship with institutions, Filippo Crivelli remembers the singer. Views that seek to reconstruct the figure of an exceptional artist, unusual and contradictory.
Self
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.
Screenplay
Angelo, un joven que con gran esfuerzo ha logrado salir de la pobreza, y Alberto, un guionista de éxito, se hacen amigos en la sala de urgencias de un hospital después de sufrir un infarto y llegan a compenetrarse de un modo absolutamente inexplicable dadas sus diferencias. Cuando por fin les dan el alta, descubren que necesitan estar juntos. Alberto, solitario por naturaleza e incapaz de darle a su novia lo que necesita, decide mudarse a casa de Angelo.
Director
Angelo, un joven que con gran esfuerzo ha logrado salir de la pobreza, y Alberto, un guionista de éxito, se hacen amigos en la sala de urgencias de un hospital después de sufrir un infarto y llegan a compenetrarse de un modo absolutamente inexplicable dadas sus diferencias. Cuando por fin les dan el alta, descubren que necesitan estar juntos. Alberto, solitario por naturaleza e incapaz de darle a su novia lo que necesita, decide mudarse a casa de Angelo.
Screenplay
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Story
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Director
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Self
After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.
Teleplay
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, includine the Plague.
Director
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, includine the Plague.
Self
Documentary about Italian screenwriting legends Agenore 'Age' Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli.
Writer
This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The townsfolk—adults, children and foreigners alike—deal with various issues as they try to resume normal lives in a homeless situation.
Director
This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The townsfolk—adults, children and foreigners alike—deal with various issues as they try to resume normal lives in a homeless situation.
Writer
14-year-old Siddharta, wise beyond his age, has to deal every day with his heroin-addict mother Silvia and an absent father. One day, his four-year-old sister Domitilla accidentally pricks her finger on one of Silvia's used needles without her noticing. Seeking advice on the Internet, Siddharta is told to have her tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Thus he embarks on a odyssey of medical bureaucracy and both kind and uncaring adults.
Director
14-year-old Siddharta, wise beyond his age, has to deal every day with his heroin-addict mother Silvia and an absent father. One day, his four-year-old sister Domitilla accidentally pricks her finger on one of Silvia's used needles without her noticing. Seeking advice on the Internet, Siddharta is told to have her tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Thus he embarks on a odyssey of medical bureaucracy and both kind and uncaring adults.
Director
A collective short film made of nine segments characterized by a critical and pessimistic attitude towards the future of Italy in the wake of the political rise of Silvio Berlusconi ahead of the 1994 general elections.
Songs
Pietro es un adolescente que se enamora perdidamente de Ghisola, una niña encantadora, pero que no es quien dice ser. Los dos viven una larga y enrevesada historia de amor con encuentros y desencuentros marcados por el desengaño.
Writer
Pietro es un adolescente que se enamora perdidamente de Ghisola, una niña encantadora, pero que no es quien dice ser. Los dos viven una larga y enrevesada historia de amor con encuentros y desencuentros marcados por el desengaño.
Director
Pietro es un adolescente que se enamora perdidamente de Ghisola, una niña encantadora, pero que no es quien dice ser. Los dos viven una larga y enrevesada historia de amor con encuentros y desencuentros marcados por el desengaño.
Writer
Después de muchos años de tratamiento por epilepsia, Valentina ingresa en una clínica psiquiátrica. Allí conoce a Arturo, un joven psiquiatra, que a pesar de su conflictiva vida personal y de la enorme ineficacia de la Sanidad Pública italiana, entabla una intensa relación con ella. Centrando la terapia más en su vida familiar que en las drogas, acaba descubriendo la verdadera naturaleza de la enfermedad de Valentina.
Director
Después de muchos años de tratamiento por epilepsia, Valentina ingresa en una clínica psiquiátrica. Allí conoce a Arturo, un joven psiquiatra, que a pesar de su conflictiva vida personal y de la enorme ineficacia de la Sanidad Pública italiana, entabla una intensa relación con ella. Centrando la terapia más en su vida familiar que en las drogas, acaba descubriendo la verdadera naturaleza de la enfermedad de Valentina.
Screenplay
At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.
Screenplay
Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.
Director
Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.
Story
Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.
Screenplay
Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.
Writer
Una historia simple, a veces amable y a veces dolorosa. Los protagonistas son unos adolescentes romanos que reciben en su casa la visita de Mignon, su bellísima prima francesa, cuya presencia, en medio de un ambiente de crisis e infidelidad de los adultos, perturba la fantasía de los chicos.
Director
Una historia simple, a veces amable y a veces dolorosa. Los protagonistas son unos adolescentes romanos que reciben en su casa la visita de Mignon, su bellísima prima francesa, cuya presencia, en medio de un ambiente de crisis e infidelidad de los adultos, perturba la fantasía de los chicos.
Writer
15-year-old Giuliana doesn't want to spend the summer with her rich mother, so—without a word—she leaves with Romeo, the son of the janitor of her building, embarking on a backpacking trip through Italy. Her divorced father is worried and decides to go in search of his daughter.
Aurelia
A Count marries a woman with illness that makes her suffer attacks of vampirism. The Count took flight in the wildest horror, and ran, without any idea where he was going or what he was doing, impelled by the deadliest terror, all about the walks in the park, till he found himself at the door of his own Castle as the day was breaking, bathed in cold perspiration. Involuntarily, without the capability of taking hold of a thought, he dashed up the steps, and went bursting through the passages and into his own bedroom.
Ottilia
Adaptation of Goethe's novel.
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