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Monica Vitti: Dynamic queen of Italian cinema
Monica Vitti was an Italian actor who rose to fame during the Sixties in a series of memorable films by the director Michelangelo Antonioni and who went on to become a star of the commedia all’italiana genre.
Vitti, who has died aged 90, was known in her home country as the “Queen of Italian cinema”, admired equally for the ice-cool demeanour of her early films and her embrace of comedic roles in her later ones.
She was born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome in to Adele Vittilia and Angelo Ceciarelli. One of three children, she later recalled: “I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.”
She made her stage debut aged 14, finding freedom that she had missed in the confines of the family. Four years later her parents emigrated to America, but Vitti decided to remain, studying at the Rome National Academy of Dramatic Art and graduating in Vitti adopted her stage name, combining t
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Monica Vitti, international arthouse star and s style icon, to
In an early scene from Ettore Scola’s Rome-set comedy Dramma della gelosia, we find a group of five women – flower sellers – sitting tillsammans next to their stalls having middag. As they eat, the world going by in front of them, they listen to a record teaching them English phrases. One of the women, Adelaide (Monica Vitti), says – deadpan – as she makes a few jabs into her pasta: “My English pronunciation fryst vatten better when I’m eating.”
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The Throbbing Eye: Monica Vitti's Writings on Art
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