Today Lina Wertmuller, one of the greatest Italian directors of all time, has passed away. In her long life, cinema has always been central, a great love to which to devote passion and attention. In 1976 Lina Wertmuller was the first woman ever to receive an Academy Award nomination for her best director and in 2019 she was awarded the Oscar for her career. To remember her, we have selected 5 of her best films. 5 films to remember Lina Wertmuller -Pasqualino Settebellezze
Film nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Lina Wertmuller. Naples, Thirties. Pasqualino Frafuso is a guappo, the only male in a family of seven women, who tries to make his way into society by aspiring to honor and respect. The eldest of the sisters, Concettina, deceived by her fiancé Totonno Eighteen carats with improbable promises of marriage, ends up working in a brothel: Pasqualino confronts the exploiter, but is humiliated in front of a large audience of prostitutes; all that remains for him is to commit an honor killing. -The basilisks
The tiny province as a shelter from the world and from responsibilities, a refuge for young people who grew up in sloth without the shred of an ideal or an objective other than that of a decent survival. Francesco, Sergio and Antonio are three privileged young people who live in a typical provincial village between Puglia and Basilicata: the film and the portrait of their life, now too steeped in apathy and provincialism, to make them really want to stand out. flight to more stimulating destinations. when one day Antonio’s aunt, a listless university student, offers him to go and live with her in Rome, transferring the university enrollment, after a short time he gives up and returns to the country. Director Lina Wertmuller is dead
Lina Wertmuller, one of the greatest Italian directors, died at the age of 93. The news was given on social media by a family friend. – Swept away by an unusual fate in the blue sea of ​​August
Raffaella Pavone Lanzetti, a rich anti-Communist bourgeois, spends her holidays on a yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea with her rich and spoiled friends. She passing the time to emphasize her own high social rank, humiliating her subordinates, including Gennarino Carunchio, a crude Sicilian Communist sailor. Gennarino finds himself having to satisfy the requests of the “mistress”, until the two find themselves alone in the open sea due to a fault in the engine of a rubber dinghy. Having landed on a desert island, the roles are reversed and Pavone Lanzetti will inevitably become the sailor’s slave, who unleashes ancient social and sexual frustrations on her, giving rise to a strong passion between the two. -Mimi metallurgist wounded in honor
The Catania laborer Carmelo Mardocheo, nicknamed Mimi, who has always been strongly attracted by the ideals of the left and intolerant to the mafia that dominates his land unchallenged, one day loses his job at the local sulfur quarry for having given his vote to the candidate for mayor of the PCI, instead of that colluded and supported by the local mafia gang. Left without a job, and being precluded from any other possibility of working in the city, Mimi is forced to leave for Turin, leaving his young wife Rosalia at home. There, Mimi is employed as a black construction worker for a company acting as a cover for some Sicilian mafia members in the city, headed by the heavy figure of Vico Tricarico. – Movies of love and anarchy
In 1932 a Lombard peasant, Antonio Soffiantini known as Tunin, after the killing of one of his anarchist comrades by the carabinieri, went to Rome to assassinate Mussolini. In the capital he comes into contact with Salome, a prostitute who is a lover of an anarchist of the group, who hosts him in the closed house where she works, passing him off as her cousin. Here Tunin falls in love with another prostitute, Tripolina, to whom he reveals the cause that brought him to Rome, asking her to spend the last two days with him in exchange. The morning of the attack he wakes up late. Anguished, he loses the light of reason, and starts firing on the police, who were in the brothel for a check.
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