“I have never accepted commitmentsand I’ve always just made the cinema I wanted”, assures Liliana Cavani. And from this derives this incongruous attitude and extraordinary ability to delve into the darkest and most mysterious parts of the human psyche. The Venice Mostra’s show tonight, a tribute to more than sixty years of filmography It largely justifies the Golden Lion award, showing that the close relationship that the Italian director presented at this festival has reached its climax. ‘Philippe Pétain: The Trial of Vichy’ (1965), harsh criticism of who transformed France in his time The puppet state will cooperate with the Nazis.
The type of controversy it sparked among the most conservative sections of Italian society a year later because of its definition of Catholicism. ‘Francis of Assisi’ (1966)—later reinterpreted the figure of the saint in two fictions, one starring Mickey Rourke—has since become an integral part of his career, representing extreme eroticism, spiritual questioning, and psychological excesses.
with the biopic ‘Galileo’ (1968) attacked the religious system -The Vatican tried to censor the movie-; explored mechanisms of authority and oppression with ‘Cannibals’ (1969) and ‘The Guest’ (1971); Through ‘Milarepa’ (1973), he raised questions about the social role of violence, and with this, undoubtedly the best and most famous of his films, ‘The Night Doorman’ (1974) depicted the unhealthy relationship between a former Nazi commander. and the woman he raped in a concentration camp years ago—Charlotte Rampling, who co-starred with Dirk Bogarde in the film, will present the award to her this evening; I would rediscover parallels between nazism and sadomasochism ‘Beyond good and evil’ (1977) and ‘Inner Berlin’ (1985). Especially since then he made frequent appearances in theater and opera, where he showed the same unconventional spirit and the same intellectual restlessness.
Caviani also presents his new fiction ‘The Order of Time’ in Mostra these days; It’s about a group of friends having to come to terms with themselves after discovering that a meteorite could soon bring the world to an end. And he assures himself that this may not be the last movie he’s directed, despite being 90 years old. “I make movies to shape my thoughts,” he explains. “If the Lumiere brothers had not given us cinema, I would have been doomed to be unable to express myself and would have lived a very unhappy, perhaps unhappy life. Psychiatric Hospital“.