Berlinguer, I Love You

Berlinguer, I Love You
Directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci
Produced by Gianni Minervini
Antonio Avati
Written by Giuseppe Bertolucci
Roberto Benigni
Starring Roberto Benigni
Alida Valli
Carlo Monni
Music by Pier Luigi Farri
Cinematography Renato Tafuri
Edited by Gabriella Cristiani
Distributed by Euro International Film
Release dates
1976
Running time
90 min
Country Italy
Language Italian

Berlinguer ti voglio bene (internationally released as Berlinguer, I Love You) is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. It is the debut film of both Bertolucci and Roberto Benigni.

It is based on the stage play Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, that the same Bertolucci wrote and directed in 1975 and in which Benigni played the character of Mario Cioni, a character he later resumed in the variety television Onda libera.[1][2] The title quotes Cioni's declaration of love for Enrico Berlinguer, then leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Plot

Mario is a guy of the underclass of Tuscany, who lives without doing anything in his life. His friends make him jokes, while Mario lives in the myth of Enrico Berlinguer, trusting into indifference. Mario is very attached to his mother, because he has the Oedipus complex, and when he loses a game of poker with a friend, this tells Mario about having sex with his mother: this is the penality cause of the game. Mario is disgusted, but gradually he falls in love with his mother, who however rejects him and prefers to go to bed exactly with the friend who offered to Mario the cruel bet. So Mario finds his friend as a stepfather.

Cast

References

  1. Eva Marinai, Sara Poeta, Igor Vazzaz. Comicità negli anni Settanta. ETS, 2005.
  2. Franco Montini. Una Generazione in cinema: esordi ed esordienti italiani, 1975–1988. Marsilio, 1988.

External links

Linda Brodo, Stefano Brugnolo, Modernity degraded of the peripheries: an analysis of «Berlinguer, ti voglio bene», in "Intersezioni" 3/2014, pp. 473–498, Il Mulino.


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