Milarepa (1973 film)

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Milarepa
Milarepa (1974 film) film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Liliana Cavani
Written byLiliana Cavani
Italo Moscati
Starring Lajos Balázsovits
Paolo Bonacelli
Marisa Fabbri  [ it ]
Cinematography Armando Nannuzzi
Edited by Franco Arcalli
Music byDaniele Paris
Production
companies
  • Lotar Film
  • RAI
Distributed byRAI
Release dates
  • 28 December 1973 (1973-12-28)(Pistoia, Italy) [1]
Running time
113 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguagesItalian
Vietnamese

Milarepa is a 1973 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani. [1] [2] The film tells the story of the famous Tibetan yogi and poet Milarepa.

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Cast

Production and release

Milarepa was shot in Abruzzo in autumn 1972 and premiered in Pistoia, Italy, on 28 December 1973. [1] It was released in January 1974 and aired on television in June the same year. [1]

The film was screened in competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. [1] [3]

Reception

Milarepa received mostly positive reviews by Italian critics, including Pier Paolo Pasolini (who titled it a "truly beautiful film"), Alberto Moravia and Lino Miccichè, although some critics like Francesco Savio  [ it ] of Il mondo , who dismissed it as being "purely decorative", expressed their reservations. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Marrone, Gaetana (2000). The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  2. 1 2 "Milarepa". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  3. "Milarepa". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 10 March 2024.