Cristina Comencini Biography

Italian film director, and novelist

Cristina Comencini (Italian: ; born 8 May 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist.

Biography

She is one of four daughters of Italian film director Luigi Comencini. She attended with her sisters the Lycée français Chateaubriand (Rome).

Cristina Comencini's 2005 film The Beast in the Heart, based on her own novel La bestia nel cuore, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her upcoming film When the Night, also based on her own novel and published in the United States by Other Press, is scheduled to compete in compe*ion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September.

She is mother of former Minister of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda.

Filmography

• 1989: Zoo
• 1993: La fine è nota
• 1996: Va' dove ti porta il cuore
• 1998: Matrimoni
• 2000: Liberate i pesci!
• 2002: The Best Day of My Life (Il più bel giorno della mia vita)
• 2005: La mia mano destra
• 2005: The Beast in the Heart (La bestia nel cuore)
• 2008: Black and White
• 2009: Due par*e
• 2011: When the Night (Quando la notte)
• 2015: Latin Lover
• 2016: Something new
• 2018: Sex Story
• 2019: To Return
• 2024:: The Children's Train

Books in Translation

• 1994: The Missing Pages
• 2012: When the Night, published by Other Press

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cristina Comencini.

• Cristina Comencini at IMDb
• Official Website (Italian)
• Speciale Cristina Comencini su Locanda Almayer