Diva dolorosa / het Filmmuseum presenteert in coproductie met de VPRO in samenwerking met Cineteca del Comune di Bologna ; scenario et regie, Peter Delpeut ; productie, Frank Roumen voor Filmmuseum.
Publisher:
Zeitgeist Video,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, black and white (tinted) ; 4 3/4 in.
Lyda Borelli, Pina Menichelli, Francesca Bertini, Soave Gallone, Elena Makowska. Originally compiled and produced as a motion picture in 1999 out of clips of films produced between 1914 and 1920. A foreign film (Netherlands), original film clips were produced in Italy. Fullscreen. Excerpted films: La donna nuda (1914), Il fuoco (1915), Het comomeer (1914), Sague bleu (1914), Fior di male (1915), Tigre reale (1916), Il processo Clemanceau (1917), Rapsodia satanica (1917), Malombra (1917), Carnavalesca (1918), Caino (1918), La piovra (1919), La storia di una donna (1920), Maman poupeĢe (1920) Special features: photo gallery; historical essay by Angela Dalle Vacche; statement from the director.
Summary:
"In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate) affectionately captures the spirit of the World War One-era cinema diva. In all-but-lost gems such as La donna nuda (1914), and Tigre reale (1916), superstars such as Lyda Borelli and Pina Menichelli portrayed heroines teetering dangerously between defiant indulgence in sexual passion and hysterical remorse at their own cruelties. Delpeut's inventive celebration of Black Romanticism is both striking and heartbreaking in its composition--a beautifully woven narrative of tempted fate and self-torment, elegantly guided by Loek Dikker's original score. Zeitgeist Films is proud to present Delpeut's stunningly experimental work in all its heaving bosomed, luridly tinted glory."--Container.
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