Good news cos there’s always the chance he can hit the peaks rather than troughs like The Dreamers, which was given a damn good thrashing in the auteurs world cup. He’s been a very uneven director, certainly in later career, but maybe he still has enough spark in him.
Great news!
I am sure good or bad it’ll be staggeringly pretty.
Thing is, I adore I’m Not Scared, which means in my mind that I need to check out the work of Ammaniti. However, since one of my problems with Bertolucci is staggering prettiness in lieu of actual drama, I would imagine that the two could collaborate very well together. Ammanti could provide quite a lot of depth to staggering prettiness that could make a damn good movie, methinks.
—PolarisDiB
The Dreamers is nice and dandy but Bertolucci hasn’t made a great film for over 23 years!
Niccolò Ammaniti is in screen world already. His novel “Io non ho paura” seems pretty good in Salvatore’s direction and his first novel “Ti prendo e ti porto via” is remarkable and magnificent. Finally, Bertolucci will be at Home.
On that note, I probably will go see a Bertolucci film but I don’t whether to see Before the Revolution or the Spider’s Strategem, neither one of which I’ve seen.
Wow that’s really great news. I met Jeremy Thomas a few eyars back and he told me about Bertolucci’s physical condition — which prevented him from making a long-planned project about an opera singer. I had despaired that he’d never make a movie again. I hope this goes through OK — the cinema needs him!
Before the Revolution is great; the Spider’s Strategem is okay.
Is this new film going to be in English or in Italian?
I think the new film sounds terrific. And I know I’m in the minority, but I found “The Dreamers” a really compelling film.
I found “The Dreamers” a really compelling film.
Me too !
I think the anti-Dreamers feeling was unusually strong in our world cup, i know it was liked by many people too. Given the subject and heady times it was set, I found it surprisingly anaemic. I’m in a minority in really liking The Sheltering Sky, but then i love Morocco and thought it was very atmospheric, Winger was superb and Storaro rightly won the cinematography BAFTA if memory serves. Well if he didn’t, and i’ve got muddled, he should have.
Kenji, we’re both in the same minority ;)
Nothing beats his Italian films, no matter how many Dreamers or Emperors he directs.
Yeah, Kenji, I actually prefer Bertolucci’s “Sheltering Sky” to Bowles’s.
anti-Dreamers feeling was unusual
I would expect that amongst the demo here.
What made the film compelling was the way in which the centricity of youth is expressed
and maintained for the duration of the film.
As am I. I think The Dreamers is really good as well. Very glad to here he’s going to make another film.
Hmmm, sounds like he really likes Les Enfants Terribles ( The Dreamers, now this). Also, shades of his own Luna.
Yay.
I’ve only watched Last Tango In Paris, The Last Emperor, and The Dreamers. I love them and I surely wait for his upcoming film.
The Dreamers was decent, much better than Stealing Beauty! still, not a patch on his 70’s films, or even some of his 80’s ones.
i’ll probably check out the new film, but i’m hardly wetting my jeans in anticipation.
It’s about time.
great news!
Stealing Beauty did a lot of things right
it spent 90mins cultivating an object of screen desire, in a way that hadn’t been done since Bardot.
I think it missed up at the end tho, the guy could have took his pants off or seemed more into it at least.
I thought the Dreamers was a great return to form so this one looks good (up a similar alley, I guess – it seems like he’s returning to similar themes of lost innocence).
now its Milos Forman’s turn to come back
in a way that hadn’t been done since Bardot.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Best joke of the week.
(and Bardot wasn’t that “hot” either)
glad u liked it
what can i say, and god created woman was one of my favorite films
The Dreamers</I.suffered from Gilbert Adair’s rewriting of his own work. In the Book the characters palyed on screen by Louis Garrel and Michael Pitt got it on. This was sotched for the movie (alas! They’re both Beyond Lovely and certainly woudl have been game to play it if asked.)
The Sheltering Sky is one of Bertolucci’s best,IMO. It’s quite faithful to Bowles’s novel in very cinematic ways. Bertolucci perpetually poses the characters peering over an abyss. That’s Bowles in a nutshell.
and Bardot wasn’t that “hot” either)
Dennis Brian
from variety:
Helmer Bernardo Bertolucci is preparing to return behind camera with an intimate coming-of-age drama based on best-selling short novel “Io e Te” by hot Italo author Niccolo Ammaniti, who will co-pen.
Bertolucci, currently being honored by the Museum of Modern Art with a high-profile retro, has announced the project to Italian media in New York.
“Io e Te,” which is published by Einaudi in Italy, is largely set in a Rome basement where an introverted adolescent boy hides out, having told his parents he has instead gone on a ski trip. In this hideout the boy gets an unexpected visit by an older half-sister strung out on heroin whom he barely knows but who needs his help.
“It’s a story that weaves dreams and reality, and represents growth and an entry into maturity,” Bertolucci told Corriere della Sera.
“It has given me a great desire to get back to work very soon,” he added.
This new project would mark Bertolucci’s next feature after his Paris-set 1968-themed drama “The Dreamers,” released in 2003.
The 70-year-old maestro has been keeping a low profile since then due to back trouble caused by a herniated disc.
Pic, still in early development stages, has no producer confirmed to be on board, as yet. Bertolucci’s regular producer, Jeremy Thomas, is on holiday and could not be immediately reached.
Bertolucci has confirmed that plans for his previously announced project, a long-gestating costumer centered on the emotionally turbulent life of 16th-century Italo musician and murderer Gesualdo da Venosa, have been shelved.
This new pic would be more modestly budgeted, similar in scale to his Rome-set chamber drama “Besieged,” released in 1998.
Bertolucci’s take on Ammaniti’s “Io e Te” would mark the fifth big-screen adaptation of a tome by the popular Italian scribe. Previous ones include “I’m Not Scared” and “As God Commands,” both helmed by Gabriele Salvatores.