Monica vitti biography
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An Enigma Embodied: On Monica Vitti, Italy’s Muse of Incommunicability
First, there fryst vatten her beauty. (Cinema fryst vatten a visual medium after all.) Her face has angles but they are soft ones; her skin is pale but dusted with freckles. Her lips are full, her eyes sleepy. Her hair fryst vatten sculpted but it moves. Her hands ruffle and fly. Her back fryst vatten a whole landscape. Michelangelo Antonioni was drawn to Monica Vitti by the nape of her neck. She had her hair pinned up, dubbing a film, and he was sitting behind her in the studio. “You have a beautiful nape. You could man movies,” he said, a line you fear would work just as well today. “Just from the back?” Vitti joked. Antonioni, serious: “No.” When Vitti—she of the gorgeous nuca, moving hair, ruffling hands, and angled face—told this story on French TV in the nineties, she laughed at herself.
Antonioni’s trilogia dell’incomunicabilità, often translated as the “trilogy on modernity and its discontent
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The life and career of Monica Vitti
The life and career of the popular Roman actress, Monica Vitti in her official biography, of which we publish an extract
From Rome to Sicily. From Sicily to Naples, and then back to Rome again. Due to the war and the premonition that the Americans would come ashore in Sicily.
Monica was eight years old when she left Messina and the news, it seems, upset her because she was already head over heels in love with a nine-year-old blond-haired boy. She watched him from a terrace and swore her eternal love to him, as she did “two or three more times, no more than that”.
But it was wartime and there was the need to escape danger. Monica’s family moved from Messina to Naples, “in a beautiful house in Vomero, where you could see the sea”, which soon became another place they had to flee. “We spent every night in the shelter,” explained the actress on one of the few occasions she spoke about those years. “But Naples had become dangerous too, so my fath
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Monica Vitti: An Actress of Many Contradictions
L&#;Avventura is a film about the disappearance of a young woman on a volcanic island, and how Monica Vitti’s character, Claudia, fills her own grief with passion and material objects. When released at Cannes in , the move split the critics, the audience booed the movie, while the critics awarded it the Jury Prize.
In La Notte, she plays the role of 22 year old Valentina, a seductive girl who meets a couple whose marriage is disintegrating. In L&#;Eclisse, she plays Vittoria, a translator who wanders around the Roman architecture of the EUR area, reflecting internal torments due to a profound inadequacy to love. Lastly, in Deserto Rosso, Vitti delicately plays an alienated woman who is a victim of her neurosis in an uncanny industrial scenario.
In , her love and artistic relationship with Antonioni ended, and, at the top of her career, Ms Vitti decided to reinvent herself, acting in comedy movies &#; the very popular Commedia all