Laura Bispuri

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Laura Bispuri (Rome, August 20, 1977) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Her career ranges from two films in competition at the Berlinale, [1] [2] to one in the official Orizzonti competition at the Venice Film Festival, [3] to directing the fourth season of My Brilliant Friend, based on the novels by Elena Ferrante and produced by HBO and RAI. [4]

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Biography

After graduating in Cinema at the Sapienza University of Rome, Bispuri attended the Fandango Lab Workshop, a school of cinema in Rome created by Domenico Procacci. [5] In 2018 Variety listed her among the “10 European directors to watch out for”. [6] In 2022 she was invited to the jury of the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival. [7]

Career

Short Films

In 2010, her short film Passing Time won the David di Donatello for Best Short Film and was selected among the eight best short films of the year by the Académie des Césars in Paris. In 2011, she was awarded the Nastro d’Argento as “Emerging Talent of the Year” for the short film Biondina.

Feature Films

Her debut film Sworn Virgin (with Alba Rohrwacher and Lars Eidinger) was presented in Competition at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in 2015. [8] [9] [10] During development, the project had been selected at the Cannes Film Festival in the Atelier Cinéfondation. After Berlin, the film began a journey to festivals around the world, including the BFI London Film Festival in London and AFI Fest in Los Angeles, winning major awards, including the prestigious Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, the New Director Prize and the Golden Gate New Directors Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Firebird Award at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the PK Off Camera in Krakow. Sworn Virgin also won the Globo D’oro for Best First Feature in Italy.

Her second feature film Daughter of Mine (with Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher and Udo Kier) was presented in Competition at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival in 2018, and was then selected in major international festivals (BFI London Film Festival and AFI Fest), winning among others the Media Choice Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival and the Golden Anchor at the Haifa Film Festival. [11] [12] [13]

Her third feature film, The Peacock's Paradise (2021) (starring Dominique Sanda, Alba Rohrwacher, Maya Sansa, Tihana Lazovic, Leonardo Lidi, Fabrizio Ferracane), is screened at the Venice Film Festival in the official competition of Orizzonti. The movie wins the Fice 2021 Award.

Television Series

In 2024, she directed all ten episodes of the fourth and final season of My Brilliant Friend , based on the novels by Elena Ferrante and produced by HBO and RAI. [14]

James Poniewozik from The New York Times praised the fourth and final season of My Brilliant Friend by writing: "Laura Bispuri, who directs every episode of the new season, conveys a brutal intimacy by holding on tight head shots of the actors. In this story of people who cannot escape their closeness, the viewer cannot either; the camera pushes you into the hot faces of anger, lust, grief. The series retains Ferrante’s prose in Lenù’s voice-over, but it also gives you sweat and tears and grimy streets whose air clings to your skin”. [15]

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Television Series

Awards and nominations

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References

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  2. ↑ https://variety.com/2018/film/news/daughter-of-mine-review-figlia-mia-berlinale-2018-1202702467/
  3. ↑ https://www.taxidrivers.it/191489/festival-di-cinema/il-paradiso-del-pavone-di-laura-bispuri-a-venezia.html
  4. ↑ https://www.indiewire.com/news/trailers/my-brilliant-friend-season-4-trailer-elena-ferrante-returns-hbo-1235039123/
  5. ↑ "Laura Bispuri - Festival Scope: Festivals on Demand for Film Professionals World Wide". pro.festivalscope.com. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  6. ↑ https://variety.com/2018/film/spotlight/variety-unveils-10-europeans-to-watch-for-2018-1202667397/
  7. ↑ https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/juries-orizzonti-section-and-“luigi-de-laurentiis”-award-debut-film
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  9. ↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/sworn-virgin-berlin-review-772725/
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  14. ↑ https://press.wbd.com/us/media-release/max/whats-new-max-september-0
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