Tuscany in Films of Italian Directors
Tuscany is a magnificent region for filmmaking. The wonderful territory inspires the most talented directors from all over Italy to create film masterpieces. Only Italian directors can show the authentic beauty of the Tuscany region through the screen. Take a look at the list of films shot in Tuscany by Italian directors.
Eight and a Half, 1963
Eight and a Half (or "8½") is a film by the famous Italian director Federico Fellini, which is considered one of the best films in the history of cinema. The main character of the film is the director Guido Anselmi, who, after the shooting of a successful film, is experiencing a creative crisis. Throughout the film, he tries to make a new masterpiece that would satisfy all his viewers. The film features some autobiographical moments from Fellini's life. The peculiarity of the film is that in it, Fellini combines reality and fantasy so much that sometimes it is impossible to distinguish them from each other.
Romeo and Juliet, 1968
Romeo & Juliet is a British-Italian romantic drama film based on a play of the same name, written 1591–1595 by famed English playwright William Shakespeare. The film was directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli. The movie won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design. The most financially successful film adaptation of a Shakespeare play at the time of its release, it was popular among teenagers partly because it was the first film to use actors who were close to the age of the characters from the original play.
The Meadow, 1979
Il Prato (internationally released as The Meadow) is an Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. It was screened at the Venice Film Festival. The movie is set in the Tuscan town of San Gimignano. For this film, Isabella Rossellini was awarded a Silver Ribbon for Best New Actress. The film is about romantic entanglements developing between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.
Stealing Beauty, 1996
Stealing Beauty is a drama film directed and written by Academy Awarded filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, with Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, and Rachel Weisz. Lucy, an American teenage girl, is sent to Italy by her widowed father after the loss of her mother. Here, she stays with a couple of family friends in a farmhouse in the surroundings of Siena. The film was made entirely in the Tuscany region of Italy during the summer of 1995.
The Best of Youth, 2003
The best of youth is an Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. Originally planned as a four-part series, it was presented at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the prestigious "Un Certain Regard" award. The Best of Youth is a family saga set in Italy in the period that goes from 1966 to 2003. It focuses primarily on two brothers on their journey from their adolescence in the mid-1960s to parenthood and retirement in the early 2000s. The film aims to show the strong interaction between the story of the nation and the personal events of the single individuals. Some scenes are set in Florence to recreate the bad times of the big flood in 1966.
