Bernardo Bertolucci was born on the 16th of march (1941), the 19th of march is father’s day. Of course, the relationship between the poet Attilio Bertolucci , and the children filmmakers Bernardo and Joseph was strong, loving, creative and stimulating. The confirmation of an unpublished letter published in our newspaper, written the day after a quarrel dad Attilio apologizes to the children, he feels misunderstood while preparing the volume of poems, winter Journey, the filmmakers work to the Strategy of the spider.
Bernardo Bertolucci, between film and family, the photographs of household items
That of Bertolucci, father, sons and mom Ninetta , the emotional center of the nucleus, and a very good cook and make peace, it is a family unit (it is worth recovering the beautiful documentary Stealing beauty Fulvio Wetzl ). Without the poet Attilio, there would not have been the director Bernardo. The eldest son had started with the poetry, even winning a prize (Viareggio opera prima with the collection In search of the mystery), but then he had wanted to break away from his father, finding her own voice in the cinema, that cinema which had started to love thanks to the passion of Attilio, who was also a film critic: René Clair, Chaplin, Clouzot, Cayatte , and then the western John Ford and many hollywood movies.
Attilio had the attitude of the father, beloved by the students of the high school at which he taught (the Convitto nazionale Maria Luigia in Parma), in addition to the lessons of the Latin and Italian were appreciated and sought her advice on books to read. And it is the poetry of Attilio to photograph the debut of the cinema of Bernardo, the short on The cable car, lost: “Hurry, the cable car is far away, and Bernard, who has the long legs of the fourteen years, the mania of the storyteller, insists on the real-time, want that you get lost among the chestnut trees and ferns”.
