The great director was celebrated in a reception commissioned by Minister Sangiuliano and organized by Vittorio Sgarbi, who gathered the world of cinema around her
Big party with a creamy plunge into a gigantic cake with red roses, on Monday 9 January at the Ministry of Culture in Rome for the 90 years that Liliana Cavani will officially turn 12 Januarywhile finishing his fifteenth film, The order of time from Carlo Rovelli’s bestseller with Claudia Gerini, Alessandro Gassmann and Edoardo Leo, and will return to the theater for a new edition of Six characters by Pirandello.
Celebration of a generation of great directors, more or less contemporary, such as Pupi Avati and Marco Bellocchio, very active with Night exterior and then a film, which was one of the climbing partners when one came out in the early 1960s New wave Italian (Cavani, Bertolucci, Bellocchio, Gregoretti, Leone) who anticipated the Sixty-eight. A party strongly desired by the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano (going beyond the Pillars of Hercules of the culture of the time, culture is not only museums and monuments, but above all people), by the organizing undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi, deus ex machina who enthusiastically gathered, with a network of nocturnal telephone calls, the many guests of the party which took the director almost by surprise and which in the end turned out to be an amused and moving collective happening.
It’s the same Sgarbi, like many the other night, admitted that the two films that shaped him as a young man were
The night porter by Cavani e Last Tango in Paris by Bertolucci. The Ministry of Culture – he said – wants to support Italian cinema, beauty and civilization.
You surprised me, I thought I’d find ten people: thank you, thank you, thank you for this kind, generous, benevolent event that I don’t even know if I deserved, replied the author of Galileo, Milarepa, Skinto mention some of his successes through which great actors such as Mastroianni and Cardinale have passed. All of our cinema was there, the actors, directors, producers, to celebrate Liliana Carpigiana who has always been one step ahead, courageous in tackling with a cinema very different from the Italian comedy themes initially linked to the youth counterculture, then in directing exceptional historical documentaries for TV, finally in observing some cosmic-historical figures through a lens open culture.
And naturally courageous in her scandal film with Bogard and Rampling, which caused much discussion also for the theme linked to Nazism and the horrors of history; and also courageous in recounting the life of Saint Francis three times, with different actors, from Castel to Rourke. As well as courageous for directing The Traviata with maestro Muti after the historic edition with Callas, directed by Luchino Visconti.
You had a smile so bright that it brings this age back to our adolescence. We wake up in the morning at fourteen and then realize we’re 84, jokes Avati in a group with Virz, Sorrentino, Placido, Comencini, Veltroni, Letta, Alberti, Ralli, Donzelli, Malanga, Nicchiarelli. Cavani maintains an affectionate impulse for Bellocchio, saying: We have always been at the forefront, with emotion and love I tell you that we have in common a coherence, a paying belief, for this we are still alive and we make the films we want to make.
Cavani eternal girl, or young lady as Paolo Virz calls herwho still remembers how excited he was when he was sixteen years old from the vision in a club in Livorno of the Cannibals. Everything converges, coincides, agrees, the Experimental Center has dedicated a number of the magazine Black and White to her. Liliana has always looked ahead in the name of freedom, says the minister on behalf of everyone and releasing a concept that has always been shared, because Cavani has never been a victim of fashions, if she ever created them: A successful and fun celebration – commented Sangiuliano — like a student assembly. Making films is a passion – says the birthday girl – otherwise I would work. I have always felt lucky to do what I wanted and this, also remembering the controversies and censures for the Night porterwas the beautiful gift that life gave me.
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