The Italian actress Monica Vittiknown for her comedic roles and the muse of great directors such as Mario Monicelli and Michelangelo Antonioni, passed away today in Rome at the age of 90.
Maria Luisa Ceciarellihis real name, was a Referrer essential for all the actresses that came after her and covered the entire range of female characters in Italian cinema, such as the bourgeois, neurotic and afflicted by incommunicability for Antonioni’s films, but also the “Roman” one, in love with life, with joy contagious in the tapes that saw her as a cinematographic couple with Alberto Sordi.
Vitti was the muse in the so-called “Trilogy of solitary confinement” by Antonioni: “The Adventure” (1960) -his Cannes debut-, “The Night” (1961) and “The Eclipse” (1962) and he also entertained the public with films like “La ragazza con la pistol” (1968), by Mario Monicelli; “Dramma della gelosia” (1970) by Ettore Scola, and “The Chastity Belt” (1967) or “My love, help me” (1969), by Alberto Sordi.
The Adventure (1960)
The night (1961)
The Eclipse (1962)
The ragazza with the gun (1968)
The Chastity Belt (1967)
emotional farewell
In the social networks friends and tuned to his films offer an emotional goodbye to the actress. Among the reactions, the Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, reminded the artist, commenting on the following: “Goodbye to Monica Vitti, goodbye to the queen of Italian cinema. Today is a really sad day, a great artist and a great Italian disappeared.
Other followers of Monica Vitti and Italian cinema pay tribute to her with the following publications:
Source: Lasexta
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