With 77 years to the film Director Bernardo Bertolucci has died. He became famous with “last Tango in Paris” and “The last Emperor”. But his work has many facets. Admired and controversial to the present day.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
The last representative of the Italian auteur cinema
Bernardo Bertolucci was known worldwide for his films, politics and poetry idiosyncratic inter-linked. He was regarded as the last representative of the Generation of film-makers, made in the 60s and 70s, the Italian cinema famous.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
The Drama of the last Emperor
He loved complicated stories, and spared no taboos. In Bertolucci’s films the poet, therefore, were and are monumental. Among his greatest Successes of The last Emperor,” a Film about the life of the Chinese Pu-Yi”. He must ascend to the Imperial throne, even though he’s three years too young to Rule. The impressive Drama won nine Oscars, two of which received Bertolucci.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
Father figures as role models
His love for Film and literature, thanks to Bertolucci in front of all three men. His father was a distinguished literary and film critics. Also his neighbor, the well-known film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini and Director Jean-Luc Godard coined Bernardo. The image shows the three men (from left to right) in the 1969 Meet for the Film “Amore e rabbia”.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
World fame with the erotic drama
An old, grieving man with a young acquaintance pleasurable, but feeling cold has Sex – the Drama “last Tango in Paris” with Marlon Brando made the film in 1972, is world-famous. In the US, the scandalous Film was a box-office hit. In Italy, Bertolucci and Brando were convicted, however, due to “obscenity” to two months in prison on probation.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
Size Insane Film Project: “1900”
Half a century of Italian history in five cinema hours: For “1900” to denigrate critics of him as a “megalomaniac”. With the Stars Robert de Niro, Burt Lancaster, and Gerárd Depardieu Bertolucci, in 1974, turned the cinema epic about the struggle between landowners and peasants in the Emilia-Romagna. The Film is a “monument of communism”, he said later, with a mischievous look.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
From the elite to the successful Director
In the 80s and 90s, Bertolucci from the elitist film-makers turned to an internationally successful Director. His disappointment with the political System of Italy, led the self-confessed Marxist, but was also fascinated by Buddhism, in search of other cultures. As a result of The last Emperor “(1987), the first Western movie production in the forbidden city”.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
A fascination for foreign cultures
The Film “the sheltering sky” (1990) led Bertolucci to Morocco and into the Sahara. The Hollywood Stars Debra Winger and John Malkovich play a couple who wants to re-find each other. But the man dies in agony, and the trail of the woman is lost after some time. The film adaptation of the novel by Paul Bowles to keep critics up today for “sensual and overwhelming”.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
A Film for children
One of his most exotic productions of the Film “Little Buddha”, was built in 1993. With him, Bertolucci wanted to appeal to children of all ages. It was his first Film, in which there was not a conflict of political, psychological, or between gender. Thereafter, Bertolucci turned only four films, with which he could to his world, but not to build.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
Oscars, the stars and the palm trees
For his 17 movies Bertolucci price has received numerous awards: Two Oscars and two Golden Globes, the Golden lion of Venice, the honorary Palme from Cannes and the European Film. Hollywood has dedicated to him on the “Walk of Fame” star. Since a fall in 2003, Bertolucci had to lead a life in a wheelchair. At the end of November 2018, he died after a long illness, in Rome.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
The last representative of the Italian auteur cinema
Bernardo Bertolucci was known worldwide for his films, politics and poetry idiosyncratic inter-linked. He was regarded as the last representative of the Generation of film-makers, made in the 60s and 70s, the Italian cinema famous.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
The Drama of the last Emperor
He loved complicated stories, and spared no taboos. In Bertolucci’s films the poet, therefore, were and are monumental. Among his greatest Successes of The last Emperor,” a Film about the life of the Chinese Pu-Yi”. He must ascend to the Imperial throne, even though he’s three years too young to Rule. The impressive Drama won nine Oscars, two of which received Bertolucci.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
Father figures as role models
His love for Film and literature, thanks to Bertolucci in front of all three men. His father was a distinguished literary and film critics. Also his neighbor, the well-known film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini and Director Jean-Luc Godard coined Bernardo. The image shows the three men (from left to right) in the 1969 Meet for the Film “Amore e rabbia”.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
World fame with the erotic drama
An old, grieving man with a young acquaintance pleasurable, but feeling cold has Sex – the Drama “last Tango in Paris” with Marlon Brando made the film in 1972, is world-famous. In the US, the scandalous Film was a box-office hit. In Italy, Bertolucci and Brando were convicted, however, due to “obscenity” to two months in prison on probation.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
Size Insane Film Project: “1900”
Half a century of Italian history in five cinema hours: For “1900” to denigrate critics of him as a “megalomaniac”. With the Stars Robert de Niro, Burt Lancaster, and Gerárd Depardieu Bertolucci, in 1974, turned the cinema epic about the struggle between landowners and peasants in the Emilia-Romagna. The Film is a “monument of communism”, he said later, with a mischievous look.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
From the elite to the successful Director
In the 80s and 90s, Bertolucci from the elitist film-makers turned to an internationally successful Director. His disappointment with the political System of Italy, led the self-confessed Marxist, but was also fascinated by Buddhism, in search of other cultures. As a result of The last Emperor “(1987), the first Western movie production in the forbidden city”.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
A fascination for foreign cultures
The Film “the sheltering sky” (1990) led Bertolucci to Morocco and into the Sahara. The Hollywood Stars Debra Winger and John Malkovich play a couple who wants to re-find each other. But the man dies in agony, and the trail of the woman is lost after some time. The film adaptation of the novel by Paul Bowles to keep critics up today for “sensual and overwhelming”.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
A Film for children
One of his most exotic productions of the Film “Little Buddha”, was built in 1993. With him, Bertolucci wanted to appeal to children of all ages. It was his first Film, in which there was not a conflict of political, psychological, or between gender. Thereafter, Bertolucci turned only four films, with which he could to his world, but not to build.
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Bertolucci: doyen of film history
Oscars, the stars and the palm trees
For his 17 movies Bertolucci price has received numerous awards: Two Oscars and two Golden Globes, the Golden lion of Venice, the honorary Palme from Cannes and the European Film. Hollywood has dedicated to him on the “Walk of Fame” star. Since a fall in 2003, Bertolucci had to lead a life in a wheelchair. At the end of November 2018, he died after a long illness, in Rome.
In the films of Bertolucci’s the whole of life reflected. The life of the film Director Bernardo Bertolucci – as well as the life of every human being. In the 16 long feature films of the Italian’s numerous auto biographical references to track down. But you can also see and enjoy, without knowing of it all. Not least, this ambiguity and the stories that go beyond the individual, to make the size of the Director Bertolucci.
Politics and psychology in the early work
In retrospect, the life and work of Bertolucci’s is in a very different way to interpret. As a politically interested people, the dissecting in his films, the history of his native country. As a Director, is particularly interested in the psychologically comprehensible actions of the people, fathers and sons especially. Finally, as a film-crazy, the different game types, and formations of cinema exploits.
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli in “The great mistake”, one of the company’s critical early works
The a keep Bertolucci in memory, because he sang the Italian and European post-war cinema with a few films new life. “Before the Revolution”, “The strategy of the spider” and “The great mistake” are mention in which of the young Bertolucci, who came from the literature, for him, a new Medium with social upheavals employees; communism, Catholicism and the Italian history with the recent history of Mussolini’s fascism, his issues were.
Chamber of game: “The last Tango in Paris”
Others will love Bertolucci, because he repeated in the films of his middle period more and more evolving changes of style in the direction of cinematic opulence took place, the images and settings in his works are becoming larger and larger, the aufpumpte emotions, and the whole world in front of his cameras. “The last Tango in Paris” was a chamber match, but one of the big shots, and one of the camera perspectives, the extended self-the most intimate things in front of the eyes of the frightened spectators to the Monumental.
The two-part historical epic “1900” “breathed” with his larger panoramic perspective, almost Italian history, and state multi-million dollar Hollywood productions of the equipment. Similarly, some of the following films: in Particular, “The last Emperor” showed what this Director is able to tell on the one Hand the tragic, intimate and personal story of a child (the of the Chinese heir to the throne), to tell, on the other hand, but with an army of extras and great amenities, overwhelming in its splendor, also taken at locations that could not previously enter a camera man from the Western countries.
Bertolucci returned again and again to his roots
Bertolucci turned his films as European Co-productions with a lot of money from different pots. Even Hollywood with its financial hubris was amazed – and Bertolucci in 1988 for his China gave epic nine Oscars. But Bertolucci wanted to meet the expectations never. According to “1900,” he told in “La Luna” and in “The tragedy of a ridiculous man” of the smaller stories that were of human destinies, and “little” tragedies.
Bertolucci during the filming of “last Tango in Paris” Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando
And so he left the “last(n) Emperor” with “the sheltering sky” is also a more intimate Film to follow, showed the lonely battle of the sexes of a couple in the desert. “We should be against the work, what we have done,” said Bertolucci in an Interview at the end of the 1960s, and continued: “You do something, then disagree, then disagree with the opposition, and so on.” This is the principle of Bertolucci’s. The young up and coming film Director worked on his father figures, the real, was a Poet and cinema connoisseurs, the early icons of European cinema, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard. And similarly, Bertolucci worked in the arts and social and political visions: The literature and the cinema of his idols – and to communism, and Catholicism.
Contradictions as the elixir of life and artistic drive
But that’s not enough. Important was that the first contradiction was followed by a second. So, again, back to the fathers. Bertolucci realized that not everything was bad, what had given him his early role models. The analytical and rather barren early work, the film was followed by of opulence and cinema overwhelming. And then everything: intimate chamber mixed game and fine-annoying people-watching with great emotions and melodramatic excesses.
“The dreamers” with Eva Green, Louis Garrel (l) and Michael Pitt in 2003 was also a tribute to the master Jean-Luc Godard
“Vibrancy is exactly the force of the ability to speak for yourself,” was a kind of conclusion in that Interview, given by Bertolucci so early, but it was also a kind of perspective on his later work.
Bernardo Bertolucci has left a couple of great movies. Arguably he was not. Some experts accused the Italians of his unrestrained opulence in such films as “The last Emperor”, which turned then, at a work like “Little Buddha,” even to the Naive. And a Film like “last Tango in Paris”. today, in spite of all acting feats and Taboo-out in the Wake of the #MeToo debate in a different light
In the age marked by illness
Finally, the artistic power and the will to renewal in the case of Bertolucci have waned in later years. Only in 2003, a Film of extraordinary artistic force, he managed to with “The dreamers” once again. That may be his ailing health due.
Bertolucci was tied up in the last years of life, in which he was much honored in the wheelchair
One of the greatest directorial careers of the European post-war film remains however. Just because Bertolucci took in so many different aesthetic currents in his films, and varied because he is society and history, Personal and Political in an inimitable way interlinked, the Old with the New brought together, and in various artistic forms, goss, was Bernardo Bertolucci is one of the greats of cinema.