Ask Lina Wertmüller if she’s pleased to be honored by Hollywood, and here’s the typical response you get from the groundbreaking director, who at 91 is still out to shock: “I certainly am. It beats…
Genoma Films, which funded the restoration of her Oscar winning “Seven Beauties,” and Sardinia Film Commission are spearheading a retrospective of her films at the American Cinematheque on Oct. 20 and 25.
“After ‘The Lizards,’ which launched from the Locarno film festival, I was concerned that I would be perceived as a director who was too socially conscious; so to lighten things up I decided to do something completely different,” she said in a 2017 Variety interview. “Really, there are two strands — two souls — which co-exist in my work: the lighthearted one associated with musical comedies and the more socially conscious one. They are both deeply part of my nature,” is how she describes her oeuvre.
“Yes, there is no doubt that [the characters of] Mimì, Gennarino and Pasqualino represent an image of the Southern [Italian] man,” she says. “But I would not define it as realistic. It’s the grotesque style that I invented for my films that underscores the traits of these characters.” She’s often said it doesn’t make sense to mark differences between men and women filmmakers, though she also laments that not enough women directors have won Oscars.
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