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Gianni Amelio is a Director, Scriptwriter and Assistant Director Italien born on 20 january 1945

Gianni Amelio

Gianni Amelio
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Nationality Italie
Birth 20 january 1945 (79 years)

Gianni Amelio est un réalisateur italien de cinéma et de télévision, né le 20 janvier 1945 à San Pietro di Magisano, province de Catanzaro.

Biography

Peu après sa naissance, son père rejoint son grand-père, émigré en Argentine : la figure du père absent est une des caractéristiques de sa filmographie.
Gianni Amelio suit à l'université de Messine, en Sicile, une formation en philosophie, et entre ensuite au Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia de Rome. Assistant de Liliana Cavani, Vittorio De Seta et d'autres réalisateurs dans les années 1960, il devient réalisateur pour le petit écran et pendant plusieurs années réalise des téléfilms remarqués par la critique.

En 1982, il tourne son premier long métrage Colpire al cuore (Droit au cœur) récompensé du Prix David di Donatello de la meilleure réalisation et obtient le Prix ACI à la Mostra de Venise.

La recherche du père hante tous les films de Gianni Amelio, issu d'une famille d'émigrants, où les pères abandonnent les fils. Dans ses films, plus psychologiques que politiques, Gianni Amelio est conscient des influences des grands maîtres du cinéma italien, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica ou Luchino Visconti. Il partage la vision de ce dernier qui insiste sur la notion d’humanité : « L’expérience m'a enseigné que le poids de l'être humain, sa présence sont les seules choses qui comptent sur l'écran. »

Au-delà de son propre questionnement affectif, familial ou social, le cinéaste met toujours en scène le thème de l'altérité dans sa vérité.

En janvier 2014, il fait son coming out et se déclare homosexuel. Il écrit en 2018 un deuxième roman, Padre quotidiano, dans lequel il raconte l'adoption de son fils lors du tournage de Lamerica.

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Filmography of Gianni Amelio (16 films)

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Director

Tenderness
Tenderness (2017)
, 1h43
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Renato Carpentieri, Elio Germano, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Micaela Ramazzotti, Greta Scacchi, Giuseppe Zeno
Rating63% 3.191563.191563.191563.191563.19156
Un veuf âgé ayant perdu contact avec ses enfants tisse des liens avec ses jeunes voisins, jusqu'à ce qu'une tragédie vienne tout chambouler.
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero, 1h44
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Antonio Albanese, Sandra Ceccarelli, Toni Santagata
Rating58% 2.923182.923182.923182.923182.92318
Antonio lives in Milan, but does not have a steady job. His specialty is to replace other workers for a short time, since he likes to pretend to be someone else. But Antonio soon realizes he must do something more concrete in his life, and so devotes to his son, a young musician, who often fears of performing in concert.
The First Man, 1h40
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Jacques Gamblin, Maya Sansa, Denis Podalydès, Nicolas Giraud, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Jean-François Stévenin
Rating67% 3.3830953.3830953.3830953.3830953.383095
Jacques Cormery est un écrivain célèbre, âgé de 40 ans, qui va rendre visite à sa mère qui se trouve à Alger, la capitale d'Algérie, dans les rues de Belcourt. Il se rappelle son enfance pauvre, de sa grand-mère qui le battait, de ses années scolaires, de ses amis algériens mais surtout de M. Bernard, son instituteur, qui grâce à lui, donne à Jacques le privilège de faire des études.
The Missing Star, 1h43
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Sergio Castellitto
Rating66% 3.3452853.3452853.3452853.3452853.345285
Vincenzo is an Italian engineer in a steel mill in bankruptcy, which is being acquired by a group of Chinese mem. Vincenzo, not well understanding the real consequences of his work, is sent to China because there must advertise and repair a particular machine factory. Vincenzo gets help from a young translator of Chinese, and the two falls in love; but he, when he returns to Italy, finds out that the factory is purchased, and that all Italian workers are laid off. So Vincenzo goes to China in an almost personal challenge to fix a potentially dangerous fault to the same machine now in China in spite of local people's indifference.
The Keys to the House, 1h45
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Rossi Stuart, Charlotte Rampling, Pierfrancesco Favino
Rating70% 3.538243.538243.538243.538243.53824
Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) has left his son Paolo (Andrea Rossi) in the care of others since the day he was born. He has not been able to cope with the fact that Paolo’s mother died in childbirth and Paolo has not grown up like all the other children because of his handicap. Paolo is now fifteen years old and is about to meet his father for the first time. Gianni has been asked by the caretakers of his son to take him to a Berlin hospital for yearly tests and check-ups. According to their doctor, the "shock" of meeting his own father could help Paolo in his treatment.
The Way We Laughed, 2h4
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Enrico Lo Verso, Fabrizio Gifuni
Rating67% 3.3941953.3941953.3941953.3941953.394195
Così ridevano (Ainsi, ils riaient) est divisé en six chapitres : Arrivi, Inganni, Soldi, Lettere, Sangue et Famiglie. Six volets correspondant à six années (de 1958 à 1964). Le protagoniste principal est un immigré sicilien venu retrouver son frère, Pietro, à Turin. Un récit d'immigration(s) mais surtout une histoire d'amour entre frères.
Lamerica
Lamerica (1994)
, 1h56
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani
Rating73% 3.6931253.6931253.6931253.6931253.693125
Gino (played by Enrico Lo Verso) and Fiore (Michele Placido) are Italian racketeers who come to Albania just after the fall of communism to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants.
The Stolen Children, 1h54
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Enrico Lo Verso, Marina Golovine, Florence Darel, Renato Carpentieri
Rating75% 3.796313.796313.796313.796313.79631
A policeman bonds with two children as he escorts them to an orphanage.
Open Doors
Open Doors (1990)
, 1h48
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Gian Maria Volonté, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri, Tuccio Musumeci, Silverio Blasi, Lydia Alfonsi
Rating71% 3.5904253.5904253.5904253.5904253.590425
The film opens with a Fascist bureaucrat, recently fired, killing the man who fired him, the man who replaced him, and his wife.
Via Panisperna Boys, 2h3
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Laura Morante, Cristina Marsillach, Ennio Fantastichini, Mario Adorf, Virna Lisi, Sabina Guzzanti
Rating69% 3.484973.484973.484973.484973.48497
The story is inspired by a real life fact and set in the 1930s when, at the Institute of Physics of Via Panisperna, in Rome, physicist Enrico Fermi managed to involve a group of brilliant young students—Emilio, Bruno, Edoardo and Ettore (respectively, Emilio Segrè, Bruno Pontecorvo, Edoardo Amaldi and Ettore Majorana, all of whom became famous scientists)—forming a working group committed to scientific research who would achieve great discoveries in the field of nuclear physics.
Blow to the Heart, 1h45
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Morante, Laura Nucci
Rating70% 3.5143953.5143953.5143953.5143953.514395
Emilio, fils de Dario, professeur d'université situé à l'extrême-gauche, est un étudiant studieux et introverti. Il souffre des relations étroites et confidentielles qu'entretient son père avec un groupe d'anciens élèves, en particulier avec Sandro Ferrari. Lorsque ce dernier meurt dans un affrontement avec les forces de l'ordre, Emilio effectue une déposition auprès des forces de l'ordre. Le divorce entre père et fils est dès lors entamé. Dénoncé par son fils, Dario est arrêté...
The Year of the Cannibals, 1h28
Directed by Gianni Amelio, Liliana Cavani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Britt Ekland, Pierre Clémenti, Tomás Milián, Marino Masè, Delia Boccardo, Carla Cassola
Rating63% 3.1808053.1808053.1808053.1808053.180805
Le film est inspiré de la tragédie Antigone de Sophocle. Dans la ville de Thèbes tombée aux mains d'un tyran, un jeune couple brave le pouvoir en contournant la loi qui interdit d'enterrer les opposants tués par la police.

Scriptwriter

Tenderness
Tenderness (2017)
, 1h43
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Renato Carpentieri, Elio Germano, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Micaela Ramazzotti, Greta Scacchi, Giuseppe Zeno
Rating63% 3.191563.191563.191563.191563.19156
Un veuf âgé ayant perdu contact avec ses enfants tisse des liens avec ses jeunes voisins, jusqu'à ce qu'une tragédie vienne tout chambouler.
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero, 1h44
Directed by Gianni Amelio
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Antonio Albanese, Sandra Ceccarelli, Toni Santagata
Roles Story
Rating58% 2.923182.923182.923182.923182.92318
Antonio lives in Milan, but does not have a steady job. His specialty is to replace other workers for a short time, since he likes to pretend to be someone else. But Antonio soon realizes he must do something more concrete in his life, and so devotes to his son, a young musician, who often fears of performing in concert.