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By Peter Angerer
Innsbruck – If only prominent intellectuals work in a household, a teenager can either get out of that bored mood, or absorb everything on his own. And everything is possible. Among the Bertoluccis, Father Attila was a respected lyricist and critic, Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini or Elsa Morante. Bernardo Bertolucci, born March 16, 1941 in Parma and settled in Rome in 1952 with the family, had made his first film ("The Cable Car") at the age of 14. He had more cinema experience than Pasolini, whom he had attended as an badistant director in his first film "Accatone".
In April 1962, Bertolucci made his own feature film after an original by Pasolini. Three months later, "The Death of Gossamer" was celebrated at the Venice Film Festival. His poetry book "In Search of the Secret" had already been published. So much success is rare for a young man to bear without damage. Italian cinema had a new prodigy.
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The beginnings of fame inspired Bertolucci with a series of literary adaptations, allowing him to retrace Italian history and its contradictions of resistance and betrayal and thus bring politics to the cinema. With "before the revolution" (after Stendhal) "partner" (according to Dostojewskij), "spider strategy" (after Borges) and finally "the big mistake" (after Moravia) , he develops a complex story from 1969 with cameraman Vittorio. Storaro an undeniable imagery that has aroused desires in Hollywood.
Bertolucci made his world-wide debut in 1972 with the calculated scandal surrounding the movie "The Last Tango of Paris". The story of an aging American portrayed by Marlon Brando, who gets lost in an exceptional badual situation both anonymous and violent, has only been allowed to be shown in American cinemas in the form of a "badgraphic film". In Italy, where fascist laws were still in force, each performance was forbidden. In the current perspective, the scandal "Tango" must be reviewed differently, as the most speculative scenes – such as bad rape – were shot without the knowledge and without the consent of actress Maria Schneider.
But the eyes of the producers began to shine and Bertolucci was able to negotiate for his great project "1900" means and freedoms, comparable only to this contract, which could catch Orson Welles for "Citizen Kane".
Bertolucci, a member of the Italian Communist Party, was disappointed by his film opera about the son of an owner (Robert De Niro) and a farm worker (Gerard Depardieu), who once shared bed and lover, American speculators who saw only red flags, Bertolucci was punished and, therefore, only smaller budgets were available, which he could however use for (long-unknown) masterpieces such as "The Luna "and" The tragedy of a ridiculous man ".
Bertolucci's greatest Hollywood triumph in 1987 with the visceral, shot again by the epic Storaro's "The Last Emperor", which won nine Oscars. Despite worldwide success, Bertolucci had to accept humiliation, especially in the United States. Meanwhile, people like Harvey Weinstein were in charge. On the other hand, Bertolucci has never been disgusting.
A common motif in his films was the destruction of paternal figures. When the murderer played by Jean-Louis Trintignant in "The Great Error" proposes to kill his great model, he gives himself the address of the victim, that of Jean-Luc Godard. But in 2003, in his wonderfully laconic film "The Dreamer" on the revolt of May 1968, he resumed everything and paid Godard his respects. On November 26, 2018, Bertolucci, one of the world's great filmmakers, went extinct in Rome.
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