Francesca Comencini
Francesca Comencini (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃeska komenˈtʃiːni]; born 19 August 1961) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand school with her sisters. She has directed 14 films since 1984.
Francesca Comencini
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- Born
- 1961 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Occupation
- screenwriter · director
- Fields
- drama film · melodrama · documentary film
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic · Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Languages
- Italian
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Francesca Comencini (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃeska komenˈtʃiːni]; born 19 August 1961) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand school with her sisters. She has directed 14 films since 1984.
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Filmography
Her film The Words of My Father was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, her film A Special Day was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. She was married to French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier.
The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are drama film, melodrama and documentary film. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Pianoforte (1984) La lumière du lac (1988) Annabelle partagée (1991) Elsa Morante (1997) The Words of My Father (2001) Un altro mondo è possibile (2001) Carlo Giuliani, Boy (2002) Firenze, il nostro domani (2003) I Like to Work (Mobbing) (2004) Visions of Europe (2004) Our Country (2006) In fabbrica (2007) L'Aquila 2009 - Cinque registi tra le macerie (2009) The White Space (2009) A Special Day (2012) Gomorrah (from 2014) (TV series) Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World (2017) Django (TV series) (also creative director) (2023) The Time It Takes (2024)
Francesca Comencini
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- 1.5: Donna Imma's ‘Dream of Domination’ (‘Il ruggito della leonessa’, Francesca Comencini), The Italianist, 2016
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2016
- 1.7: A’ Storia e’ Maria: Gender Power Dynamics and Genre Normalization, (‘Imma contro tutti’, Francesca Comencini), The Italianist, 2016
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2016
- Laura Di Bianco - Francesca Comencini: Women Outside the Polis, Italian Political Cinema
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- “Francesca Comencini”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q457170: Francesca Comencini
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1.5: Donna Imma's ‘Dream of Domination’ (‘Il ruggito della leonessa’, Francesca Comencini), The Italianist, 2016Crossref registry
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1.7: A’ Storia e’ Maria: Gender Power Dynamics and Genre Normalization, (‘Imma contro tutti’, Francesca Comencini), The Italianist, 2016Crossref registry
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Laura Di Bianco - Francesca Comencini: Women Outside the Polis, Italian Political CinemaCrossref registry
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