Bellezza, addio

Bellezza, addio

2023 · 78 min · Documentary

In the mid-1990s, news broke that poet Dario Bellezza - who was friends with Sandro Penna, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, and Pier Paolo Pasolini - had AIDS: this was the beginning of the end for him. Today, friends, poets and literary critics tell the story of the first openly gay writer of Italian literature, one of the symbols of a thriving cultural scene. They called him 'Italy's poète maudit', to which his snarky response would be: "If anything, I was blessed, blessed by the Muses".

Directed by Carmen Giardina

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

Bellezza, addio

FRATELLI MINORI

Both from Carmen Giardina.

More from Carmen GiardinaSee all →

Peopling The PalacesPeopling The Palaces · 2007
Peopling The Palaces
10.02007
Movie
FRATELLI MINORIFRATELLI MINORI · 2012
FRATELLI MINORI
10.02012
MovieHistoryDrama
Un FiglioUn Figlio
Un Figlio
8.0
MovieDrama
Inspector ColiandroInspector Coliandro · 2006
Inspector Coliandro
8.02006
SeriesCrimeAction & Adventure
Coliandro is an inspector serving at the Bologna police headquarters who constantly finds himself embroiled, against his will, in matters bigger than himself. But Coliandro never backs down, even though his carelessness and investigative incompetence inevitably land him in trouble.
La fine è notaLa fine è nota · 1993
La fine è nota
7.51993
MovieThriller
A young lawyer returns home and discovers that a man has committed suicide jumping through a window of his house. His wife, Maria, says that she let the unknown man enter because he said the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo start to investigate about the man and about the reasons of his suicide.
Becoming Karl LagerfeldBecoming Karl Lagerfeld · 2024
Becoming Karl Lagerfeld
7.42024
SeriesDrama
In 1972, Karl Lagerfeld is an unknown 38-year-old designer of ready-to-wear fashion, largely unknown to the public. His encounter with the young Jacques de Bascher, an ambitious and seductive dandy, changes everything.
Enrico Piaggio: VespaEnrico Piaggio: Vespa · 2019
Enrico Piaggio: Vespa
7.02019
MovieDramaTV Movie
It is 1945. Enrico Piaggio’s Pontedera factory is in ruins and the 12,000 people who worked there are condemned to unemployment and misery. Piaggio feels the enormous responsibility resting on his shoulders: the lives of so many families depend on his ability to create new jobs. A project is born in the mind of the entrepreneur: a small, robust, agile and affordable means of transport, capable of relaunching mobility, giving impetus to the recovery of the country’s economic and civil life. To make this dream come true, Piaggio turns to engineer Corradino D’Ascanio, a brilliant designer who uses the experience gained in the field of aeronautics to create the scooter that remains today the symbol of Italian creativity and design: the Vespa!
Donne con le gonneDonne con le gonne · 1991
Donne con le gonne
6.31991
MovieComedy
Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an housewife devoted to her husband.
1968 The Braibanti Trial1968 The Braibanti Trial · 2020
1968 The Braibanti Trial
6.32020
MovieDocumentary
Documentary about the life of Aldo Braibanti, an 'heretic' Italian intellectual, from early anti-fascist activism to his death, passing through the infamous 1968 mock trial which, under the flimsy accusation of “plagio”, actually aimed at his independence and homosexuality.
Donne in biancoDonne in bianco · 1998
Donne in bianco
6.31998
MovieComedy
Piano 17Piano 17 · 2006
Piano 17
6.12006
MovieActionComedy
While trying to plant a bomb in a high-rise building to destroy incriminating files, a man gets stuck in the elevator with two unaware employees—and a ticking bomb.
Tainted SoulsTainted Souls · 2017
Tainted Souls
5.92017
MovieDrama
The lives of the tenants of a lower-class apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime, drug dealing, confused feelings and tainted relationships, in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome. Marcello, a bisexual former body builder married with Chiara, has an affair with the bourgeois professor Walter; the ambitious Mauro and cold-blooded dealer and his wife Simona get involved in the ambiguous business of the local boss Carmine to move up to the elegant and cruel circles of central Rome that profit from the public funds for the disadvantaged; Valeria and her son Attilio, Flaminia and her violent husband Bruno face the daily difficulties of their troubled lives. The corrupted powers of urban speculation invade a suspended corner of the suburbs, contaminating the lives of a group of lost souls,revealing the desperate world of the slum and the pitiless scene of the city center as the hidden face of the same coin.
The Last New Year's EveThe Last New Year's Eve · 1998
The Last New Year's Eve
5.81998
MovieComedyDrama
New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best friend and vows revenge. Next door, a family prepares their vintage Dodge for a drive through the streets. A call girl ties up a lawyer while, unbeknownst to him, three men await the right moment to break into his office. Across the hall, a woman downs pills in a lonely suicide attempt. Two young men hide out in a bedroom smoking dope; one of them has some dynamite. As midnight approaches, each group draws closer to grotesque tragedy.
The Arrival of WangThe Arrival of Wang · 2011
The Arrival of Wang
5.62011
MovieScience FictionMystery
Chinese-language interpreter Gaia is called up out of the blue by the Italian authorities with an urgent and confidential translation assignment. She is whisked away to a secret underground location and ushered into a pitch-black room where she is asked to interpret the harsh interrogation of a mysterious presence, the eponymous Mr. Wang.
Hello BeautifulHello Beautiful · 2022
Hello Beautiful
5.52022
MovieComedy
Pio and Amedeo are inseparable friends, or at least they were until they graduated from high school, at which point each one was faced with the question: move up north or stay in the south?
Trafficante di virusTrafficante di virus · 2021
Trafficante di virus
4.82021
MovieDramaThriller

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter