Marco Ferreri

11.05.1928, Milano, Italy - 09.05.1997, Paris, France

 

Before he started working in film,
Ferreri had quit his studies and had worked as a sales agent. During the late
‘40s he worked with many neo-realist authors and in the ‘50s started writing
screenplays. He occasionally acted in supporting roles, as in  P.P. Pasolini’s
Pigsty. His directorial debut took place in 1958. He had always had
problems with censorship. Probably his most famous film The Blowout, a
story about a gastronomical suicide of four friends, is yet another variation of
the subject of the modern man’s alienation.

Filmography

Nitrato d'argento (1996)
Diario di un vizio (1993)
La carne (1991)
La casa del sorriso (1988)
Come sono buoni i bianchi (1987)
I Love You (1986)
Il futuro č donna (1984)
Storia di Piera (1983)
Storie di ordinaria follia (1981)
Chiedo asilo (1979)
Ciao maschio (1977)
L'ultima donna (1976)
Touche pas a la femme blanche (1974)
La grande bouffe (1973)
Liza (1972)
Perché pagare per essere felici (1971)
L'udienza (1971)
Il seme dell'uomo (1969)
Dillinger e morto (1968)
L'Harem (1968)
Corrida! (1966)
Marcia nuziale (1965)
Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965)
L'uomo dai palloncini (1965)
Controsesso (1964)
La donna scimmia (1963)
Una storia moderna (1963)
Le Italiane e l'amore (1961) (segment L'infedelta coniugale)
El Cochecito (1960)
Los chicos (1959)
El Pisito (1959)
L'amore in citta (1953)


Related texts

Sex, violence, and tradition

Films by this director

The Ape Woman

(La donna scimmia, 1963.)

Directed by: Marco Ferreri
PHOTOGRAPHY: Aldo Tonti
Synopsis:

Antonio is a cynical entertainer. He meets Maria and discovers that her body is unnaturally hairy, which he skillfully exploits at fairs and carnivals. To his surprise, he realizes that he has come to love Maria, although it does not prevent him from exploiting her further.

b/w, 100 min.

Blow-out

(La grande abbufata, 1973)

Directed by: Marco Ferreri
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mario Vulpiani
Synopsis:

Four successful businessmen close themselves up in a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death. After the first night, Marcello demands that they bring in women. They call three prostitutes, but the girls cannot hold their pace. Can Andrea, a schoolteacher who accidentally finds herself in their company, do it?

color, 135 min

Don't Touch the White Woman!

(Non toccare la donna bianca, 1974)

Directed by: Marco Ferreri
Synopsis:

A modern Western with radical political commentaries. The famous battle of the Little Big Horn is transferred to Paris of the 1970s. Some of the actors in this eclectical movie wear costumes; some wear ordinary T-shirts… The film also recalls the Watergate affair, while its brutal ending evokes The Blue Soldier with Candice Bergen.

color, 109 min

The Story of Piera

(Storia di Piera, 1983)

Directed by: Marco Ferreri
Synopsis:

Erotic drama based on the autobiography of Italian stage actress Piera Degli Esposti. The story deals with the incestuous relationship between the open-minded mother and daughter, Piera, who share men they have sexual relations with. Piera’s parents eventually end up in mental institutions, but remain sexual "eccentrics".

color, 105 min

Budućnost je žena

(Il futuro e donna, 1984)

Directed by: Marco Ferreri
PHOTOGRAPHY: Tonino Delli Colli
Synopsis:

Neobična priča o Anni i Gordonu, paru koji ne želi imati djecu. Uskoro pozivaju Malvinu da živi s njima, iako je u drugom stanju.  

color, 99 min

I love you

(1986.)

Directed by: Marco Ferreri
Synopsis:

All the women handsome Michael meets have one flaw: they lack total commitment. Eventually Michael finds one worth loving – persomified in an electrical key chain shaped as a woman’s head that keeps repeating "I love you".

color, 102 min

Come sono buoni i bianchi

(1987)

Directed by: Marco Ferreri
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ángel Luis Fernández
Synopsis:

Sarcastic, but picturesque polemics about the delivery of humanitarian aid in Africa; luxury hotels, cannibals, sacrificing of the food – all these elements are incorporated in Ferreri’s film.

color, 95 min

Love to Eternity

(1970)

Directed by: Marco Ferreri
Synopsis:

The author explores female-male-animal relations. Giorgio escapes from work and his wife to a Mediterranean island in the company of a blonde, Liza. When Liza kills a dog in order to attract attention, she is in for a nasty surprise…

color, 90min
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