Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucciis an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and The Dreamers. In recognition of his work, he was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Since 1979 he has been married to screenwriter Clare Peploe...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth16 March 1941
CityParma, Italy
CountryItaly
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
I saw 'Avatar' and liked it very much. It was a great achievement.
I started very, very young to make movies - I was 21. And at the age of 27, 28, I'd done already three movies.
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.
I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.
When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.