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Arcangela Felice Assunta "Lina" Wertmüller OMRI (Italian: [ˈliːna vertˈmyller]; 14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is best known for her 1970s art house films Seven Beauties , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Seduction of Mimi , [ 6 ] Love and Anarchy , and Swept Away .
Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to score a best director nomination at the Academy Awards, died on Thursday in Italy. She was 93. Wertmüller’s death was reported in the Italian press.
If you weren’t around at the time, it’s hard to communicate just what a splashy, dominating place the Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller occupied during the 1970s. Wertmüller, who died on ...
Italian writer-director Lina Wertmüller, who passed away last week at age 93, was one of those industry icons whom I had hoped to one day reconnect with. I had the honor of first meeting her two ...
[2] [3] She is most remembered for her roles in films of director Lina Wertmüller, including The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1973), and Swept Away (1974). [2] [3] In cinema, she also appeared in films of Claude Chabrol, Elio Petri and Vittorio De Sica, and on stage in productions by Dario Fo, Luchino Visconti and Luca Ronconi.
Seven Beauties (Italian: Pasqualino Settebellezze, "Pasqualino Sevenbeauties") is a 1975 historical black comedy drama Italian film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, and Shirley Stoler.
Actor Giancarlo Giannini’s collaboration with writer-director Lina Wertmüller, who died Dec. 9 at age 93, spans nine films, including raucous sex comedy and social satire “The Seduction of ...
All Screwed Up (Italian: Tutto a posto e niente in ordine; also known as Everything Ready, Nothing Works) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Plot