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Admirers, authorities and representatives of the world of the movie theater today, they bid farewell to director Bernardo Bertolucci, congratulated for his artistic freedom and his poetics. As a tireless genius, he left a last scenario over.
The simple wooden coffin of the director of "Ultimo tango a Parigi" (1972), who died at the age of 77, was installed in the Protomoteca hall of the Rome City Hall, Campidoglio, on a pedestal and a red carpet and guarded by two ornate guards
The room, reserved for special occasions and decorated with busts of the most illustrious personalities of Italy, was the comings and goings of people, some of whom laid flowers at the foot of the coffin, as the mayor of the city, Virginia Raggi.
One of the first to arrive was Vittorio Storaro, director of photography of many of Bertolucci's works, including "The Last Emperor" (1987), the filmmaker's greatest international success, with which he won nine Oscars, or " The Sheltering "Heaven" (1990).
"With the camera, he did not write stories, but poems," he said, to remember Bertolucci's willingness to follow in some ways his father's footsteps, the poet Attilio Bertolucci.
His wife, filmmaker Clare Peploe, as well as colleagues such as Giuseppe Tornatore, Paolo Taviani, Mario Martone and actress Stefania Sandrelli, who worked on some of his most famous films such as "Il Conformista" (1970) ) or "Novecento" (1976).
"I am here to pay tribute to a great artist and friend, when personalities like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ermanno Olmi or Bernardo Bertolucci are lost, whether we like it or not, we are becoming impoverished.It is necessary that young people know this." Sandrelli told the media.
Tornatore, Oscar of the famous "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso" (1988), praised the professor for his ability to portray people or social movements over the last century: "His appearance and touch have made and will make school ", predicts.
"Bernardo was a great poet of the movie theater, a filmmaker who knew how to talk about his time, "he defended.
Mario Martone, author of films such as "Noi credevamo" (2010), reminded him of "his artistic freedom and thought," as "a man who invented the the movie theater"And that he was able to reach a" universal "dimension with his productions.
Bertolucci, who had in recent years a precarious health and a wheelchair, died early Monday morning, but despite his situation, he still thought of the movie theater, to the point of having left his last prepared script.
The text is entitled "The Echo Chamber" and was completed "in those days" by Bertolucci with Ludovica Rampoldi and Ilaria Bernardini, and should be produced by Indigo Films, informed sources close to the director.
Nothing else is known about this project but Paolo Taviani acknowledged that he had spoken on the phone with the filmmaker a few months ago and that he had expressed his "desire" to make a new film, perhaps comically, he explained without giving more details.
One of the names behind the latest project is Tornatore, who, however, expressed doubts as to whether he could badume his address: "I do not think he is up to the task and that he has the personality of his style, "he acknowledged. to the media.
But not only did the master praise the great authors of Italian cinematography, but young people, to whom Bertolucci dedicated several of his films, remember him in a particular way when He has addressed the awakening of love and baduality.
The most notable case is that of the boys of Cinema América, a group that organizes every summer screenings in the streets of the Italian capital, especially in the neighborhood of Trastevere, where lived the filmmaker, who has shown his support on many occasions the local administration threatened to hinder the movie theater in the open air.
"Thank you Bernardo, thank you for everything, we will continue to learn about the movie theater, build rooms where you can enjoy. In our Platonic caves, where ideas are born, we will project you again and again, film after film, "said the young people on Facebook.
The teacher will not have a Catholic burial because he always declared himself an atheist, but there will be a new moment to remember his the movie theater imperishable next Thursday, December 6, with a commemorative act at the Teatro Argentina of the Italian capital. EFE
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