Renowned Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci died at the age of 77 in Rome, the capital city of Italy. Bernardo Bertolucci was the last great maestro of the 20th century. In the early 1960s, Bertolucci began making his first films and made several films. Here are some of your memorable movies.
The Conformist (1970)
Bertolucci is both a director and screenwriter in this political dramatic film co-produced by Italy-France-West Germany. Criticizing fascist ideology, the film deals with issues such as nationalism and common memory.
The protagonist of the film, Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant), is a conformist who, without question, obeys the Italian dictator Mussolini. When he goes to Paris for his honeymoon, he is given a new assignment. In Italy, he is asked to find and kill an elderly professor who is considered a danger to fascism. Attached to the film censorship in Turkey, but the 8th International Istanbul Film Festival in April 1989, he indicated.
The Last Tango in Paris (1972)
In the Italian-French co-production, Jeanne (Maria Schneider) is an ordinary Parisian woman preparing to marry. Searching for a house, he encounters a strange American man named Paul (Marlon Brando).
Although he is older than himself, he is greatly affected. A strange relationship begins between the two. Even though they are always together, they never ask each other about their lives. Personality differences between them will lead both to a narrow dead end.
The Last Tango in Paris is considered one of the most erotic works of its time. However, the claim that Maria Schneider, who was 19 years old during the filming, was forced to act in a rape scene without her consent, caused the director to react.
1900 (1976)
The film, shot in the hometown of Emilia, Bertolucci, this periodical history film made in Italy, records the chronology of two men in the political turmoil in Italy in the first half of the 20th century.
The film describes how friendship can turn into hostility in parallel with political events and economic order.
In Italy, the son of the famous landowners Berlinghieri family Alfredo (Robert De Niro) and his father Olmo (Gerard Depardieu), a farmer, were born on the same day in 1900.
The relationship between Alfredo and Olmo turns from friendship to enmity due to class differences that become sharper as they grow older and political problems in and out of the country. Alfredo, who went to war, became a fascist leader who had to be destroyed in the eyes of the leftist Olmo.
The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but did not participate in the competition.
The Last Emperor (1987)
The US-made film depicts the life story of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing dynasty in China. Bertolucci wrote the screenplay with Mark Peploe. With this film, the Chinese government allowed for the first time to film in the Forbidden City.
The Last Emperor is an epic story that is one of the most award-winning and wide-ranging films in the history of cinema. The story of 60 years tells the story of Puyi (John Lone), the last emperor of China who ascended the throne at the age of 2.
The film lasted 2.5 years and more than 19 thousand people took part. The Last Emperor is the first film of Bertolucci’s ‘Oriental Trilogy’. This series is completed with Tea and Small Buddha in the Desert.
The film has received nine Academy Awards in total, including Best Director and Best Picture.
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
The British film was adapted from the 1949 novel by American writer and composer Paul Bowles. Port of New York (John Malkovich) and his wife Kit (Debra Winger) embark on a journey to Africa to save their marriage and add a different excitement to their monotonous relationship. His friends George (Campbell Scott) also accompany them. When theism ended in the Sahara Desert, these three Americans drifted into events that would radically change their lives.
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