Released a novel for the golden time of Italian film industry
One of the latest works of Italian film literature, the recognition of the writer Francesco Picolo Beautiful confusion. Fellini and Visconti Year (La Bella Confusione. L’Anno di Fellini e Visconti2023) Not only does readers look behind the scenes of filming and follow the process of making two outstanding films, but also be drawn in a discussion for the 60s of the 20th century, where culture is still political and has ideological tension.
Prestigious Viareggio The book for documentary literature is dedicated to two Italian cinema giants, Federico Fellini and Lukino Visconti, who at the same time took their masterpieces – movies 8½ and Cheetah. Francesco Picolo has been driven by personalities and episodes as a detective that has created the history of Italian and world cinema. He has written a book, which describes the tricks of the film industry and the whims of the directors, wrote information from letters, films, notes, diaries, interviews, gossip and testimony, but the main source of inspiration has been in a conversation with actress Claudia Kardinal, which spent the summer of 1963 8½ and Cheetah Filming areas and traveling from one filming area to another managed to change eras, habits and, above all, every time hair color.
”Cheetah There is a discipline and silence in the filming area, the actors learn the jokes by the scenario, and everyone lives in fear of disturbing the wisco, who expects concentration and does not want to hear no beep that has nothing to do with the movie. On the other hand, Fellini is in the filming area. And if it is overwhelmed, Fellini sanquets, crushes, can’t think. He creates the film by taking it, in this chaos. ”
Italian writer Francesco Pikolo (Francesco Piccolo, 1964) Also known as a award -winning film screenwriter and film researcher. His books Beautiful confusion and Desire to be like all In Italy, they received prestigious literary awards.
The book from Italian has been translated by Liva Trektere. Editor Jan Berzina. Editor and concealer Alnis Auziņš. Book cover author Dato Mgeladze. Book design author Rauls Liepiņš. Italian language consultant Julio Lo Bello. Book printed Jelgava printing house.
