Farewell to Lina Wertmüller: "She made Sardinia known to the world"
Condolences for the death of the great Italian director, Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2020. Mattarella: “He leaves us an artist of great refinement”. Solinas: "He loved our Island"
Lina Wertmuller
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Farewell to Lina Wertmüller, Academy Award-winning director for Lifetime Achievement in 2020, who died in her Roman home at the age of 93.
Born in 1928 in Rome (born Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich), she is considered one of the absolute masters of world cinema.
Among her best-known and unforgettable films, many of which starred Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato, her favorite actors and great friends, "Pasqualino Settebellezze" (for which she was the first female director nominated for an Oscar, in 1977), "Metallurgical Mimì wounded in honor", "Overwhelmed by an unusual fate in the blue sea of August", "Film of love and anarchy", "Summer night with a Greek profile", "I hope that me la cable ”,“ Metalworker and hairdresser in a whirlwind of sex and politics ”, just to name a few.
An innovative, determined, strong-willed artist who has never failed to make her films "political", telling the world of the proletariat, the bourgeoisie and also the wealthy classes of Italian society in all their facets, miseries, neuroses and contradictions , with sarcasm, malice and a critical eye.
"I have always had a strong character, since I was a child, I was even thrown out of eleven schools and on the set I have always commanded", she said of herself.
A great lover of Sardinia ("Overwhelmed by an unusual destiny", one of her masterpieces, was filmed in the Gulf of Orosei) in 2020, the year in which she received the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, she was engaged in a new battle right on the island: a crusade alongside Legambiente against the concession for an oyster and mussel farm in front of the beach of Baracconi, in Golfo Aranci.
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"If I am here and have become what I am I owe it solely to her and her close-ups," said Giancarlo Giannini, leading actor in his best-known films.
Even the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella joined in the condolences for what he called "a director of great finesse".
"We are left by a great artist, protagonist of international cinema, who loved Sardinia and the Sardinians, helping to make the beauties of our island known all over the world, to which she, the first woman director nominated for an Oscar, had wanted to dedicate a heartfelt homage when she was awarded the prestigious honorary Oscar, a well-deserved award for a career full of successes and awards ", the memory of the governor of Sardinia, Christian Solinas.
"A great director who has made films full of irony and intelligence, the first woman nominated for an Oscar for best director", said the mayor of Rome, his hometown, announcing that the funeral parlor will be set up in the Capitol.
(Unioneonline / lf)
