Lydia Mancinelli

BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale (2022)

Rimini Rimini (1987)

Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy. ...

Night Ripper (1986)

A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing research for a book about the crimes sets out to uncover the ident ...

Manfred, versione per concerto in forma di oratorio (1983)

Drama by Lord George Byron, music by Robert Schumann. Filmed at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 1979. ...

Riccardo III (1981)

Riccardo III is a theatre play staged in 1977 and also edited for television and aired in 1981, which Carmelo Bene dedicated to his friend Gilles Deleuze, who wrote a book about it before even seeing it. Bene strips down the original Shakespeare play to th ...

Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue) (1978)

An experimental video variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet. ...

One Hamlet Less (1973)

The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is little interested in family affairs and the fate of the kingdom, and not at all attracted by a doll-like Ophelia sucking his finger. Annoyed by his friend Horatio, who tells him of the apparition of his father's spectre t ...

Ventriloquio (1973)

Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, re ...

Salomé (1972)

Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and, after she fails to seduce the prophet John The Baptist, she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution. ...

S.P.Q.R. (1972)

In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and late capitalist myths of happiness". The protagonists: an American hustler, a drama student, a Munich waitress and her boyfriend who hope for money, a caree ...

Don Giovanni (1970)

In this a baroque and claustrophobic take on Mozart's opera of the same name, Don Giovanni tries to seduce a girl who is manically searching for Christian icons. Loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan". ...

Our Lady of the Turks (1968)

To the protagonist, an intellectual so feverish that he seems pathologically unrecoverable, a confused memory resurfaces of a massacre carried out by the Turks in Otranto. Immersing himself in one of the victims, in the unconscious desire to eviscerate him ...

Hermitage (1968)

Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito Italiano V.E.R.D.I - displays his immediate attitude to thinking a cinematic language completely based on ...

Bis (1966)

In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis' lurid Gothic novel from 1796. Experimental filmmaker Paolo Brunatto filmed some of the play's rehearsals in a Rome apartment (also frequented als ...