Francesca Comencini
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
A philosophy student, she quit University after two years, and moved to
France in 1982. Although she was planning to be a writer, she brought
to the screen instead an autobiographical story with
Pianoforte (1984): the film won the De
Sica Award at the Venice Film Festival and was invited to other
International Festivals. In the five years it took her to prepare
La lumière du lac (1988) she
co-wrote with Luigi Comencini
Un enfant de Calabre (1987)
-- later on, she also co-directed
Marcellino (1991). After
Annabelle partagée (1991),
never released in Italy, she directed the tv documentary Elsa Morante (1996) (part of a series dedicated to famous writers) and "Shakespeare a
Palermo" (1997), a documentary about the staging of a
Carlo Cecchi play. She was back to feature
films in 2001 with
Zeno - Le parole di mio padre (2001).
Along with many Italian directors she contributed in July 2001 to a
movie reportage on the Genoa riots.
