Italian actress Monica Vitti, known for her comedic roles and the muse of great directors such as Mario Monicelli and Michelangelo Antonioni, died today in Rome at the age of 90.
Her death was confirmed by the politician Walter Veltroni, a film enthusiast who has become a spokesperson for the actress’s partner for 40 years, Roberto Russo, to communicate it.
Vitti was the muse in Antonioni’s so-called “Trilogy of solitary confinement”: “L’Avventura” (1960) -her Cannes debut-, “La notte” (1961) and “L’eclisse” (1962) and also he entertained the public with films like “La ragazza con la pistol” (1968), by Mario Monicelli; “Dramma della gelosa” (1970) by Ettore Scola, and “La waist di castità” (1967) or “Amore mio aiutami” (1969), by Alberto Sordi, with whom she would forge an eternal friendship.
Goodbye to Monica Vitti, goodbye to the queen of Italian cinema. Today is a really sad day, a great artist and a great Italian woman disappeared,” Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini wrote.
Maria Luisa Ceciarelli, her real name, was an essential reference for all the actresses who succeeded 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”, in love with life, with contagious joy in the films that saw her as a film partner with Alberto Sordi.
In recent years, due to a degenerative disease, he totally preserved his privacy, but kept a strong link with the world of cinema that celebrated his 90th birthday last November with photographic exhibitions and reviews of his more than fifty films.
In an extraordinary career, Vitti won all the important prizes in Italian cinema, as well as a Golden Lion for career at the Venice Film Festival, a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and a Silver Shell at San Sebastian.
After a childhood spent in Sicily, due to her father’s work, the Roman actress made her debut in 1955 with a small role in “Adriana Lecouvreur” by Guido Salvini and five years later became Antonioni’s muse for the first of four films. on incommunicability: “L’avventura”.
In the 1960s he tried television and was famous when he resigned from the 1968 Cannes jury in solidarity with the Nouvelle Vague protesters.
It is at that moment that she decides to cut her more consolidated image and embraces the idea of comedy thanks to Mario Monicelli who wants her to be the protagonist of “”La ragazza con la pistol”, which became one of her great successes. . (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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