Monica Vitti
Acting
Biography
Monica Vitti (3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early-to-mid 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many films. She appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, Michael Caine, and Dirk Bogarde.
Born: November 3, 1931
Place of Birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Known For
We Are Cinema
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
A look back at the life and works of Michelangelo Antonioni.
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
La Notte
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
L'Eclisse
This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
L'Avventura
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
The Phantom of Liberty
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Blonde in Black Leather
Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.
Red Desert
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Archive footage
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
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as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Margherita
as Francesca
as Claudia (voice) (archive footage)
as Laura
as Herself
as Livia
as Renata Adorni / Grazia Siriani
as The Queen
as Lucia
as Flaminia
as Luisa Malpieri
as Maria
as Maria / The Prostitute
as Valentina Contarini (segment "Un incontro molto ravvicinato")
as Anna Lisa Bianchi
as Angela Ravelli
as Rita
as Susanna Maccaluso
as Amanda / Lia
as Mimì Bluette
as Lisa
as Miele
as Tina Candela
as Self
as Mrs. Foucault
as Dea Dani
as Teresa
as Floria Tosca
as Giorgia
as la suonatrice di piatti, Zoe, Annunziata, Teresa, Alberta, Eliana, Katherine, Erika, Palmira, Agata, Laura, Fulvia
as Self
as Isolina Pantò
as Barbara
as Adele / Giulia
as Maria Sarti aka Ninì Tirabusciò
as Adelaide
as Raffaella Macchiavelli
as Eva
as Assunta Patanè
as Boccadoro
as Giovanna
as Giuliana
as Self
as Modesty Blaise
as Sabina ("Fata Sabina")
as Giovanna (segment "La Minestra")
as Dolores
as Giuliana
as Gloria
as ragazza snob
as Éléonore
as Elle
as Madeleine (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
as Vittoria
as Valentina Gherardini
as Claudia
as Dorimente
as Ofelia Granelli
as Luisa Panetti
as Self
as Maria Teresa