Neri Parenti
Neri Parenti | |
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| Born | 26 April 1950 Florence, Italy |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Neri Parenti (born 26 April 1950) is an Italian film director and writer. He is known for comedy films, including the series starring Paolo Villaggio playing the character Ugo Fantozzi, and a later series of cinepanettoni—zany comedy films scheduled for release during the Christmas period.
Biography
After graduating in political science, he dedicated his career to filmmaking. He became a pupil and assistant of Pasquale Festa Campanile from 1972 to 1979, and also worked for Salvatore Samperi, Steno and Giorgio Capitani. In 1979 he directed his first film, The Face with Two Left Feet, an ironic and comical parody of Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta, which had been a hit two years earlier.
A year later he met the film actor and director
His films feature catastrophic and noisy gags, referring back to American silent film, combined with typical situations from Italian comedy (commedia brillante)
After the expiry of his contract with Villaggio in 1996, Parenti turned to directing Christmas movies, or
In 2020, he directed comedy couple Christian De Sica and Massimo Boldi in In vacanza su Marte, after a 15-years hiatus.
He is one of the few Italian directors to have stayed within a single genre throughout his career.[11]
Filmography
- The Face with Two Left Feet (1979)
- Fantozzi contro tutti (1980)
- Fracchia la belva umana (1981)
- Sogni mostruosamente proibiti (1982)
- Pappa e ciccia (1983)
- Fantozzi subisce ancora (1983)
- I pompieri (1985)
- Fracchia contro Dracula (1985)
- Scuola di ladri (1986)
- Superfantozzi (1986)
- Scuola di ladri - Parte seconda (1987)
- Casa mia, casa mia... (1988)
- Fantozzi va in pensione (1988)
- Fratelli d'Italia (1989)
- I Won the New Year's Lottery (1989)
- Le comiche (1990)
- Fantozzi alla riscossa (1990)
- Le comiche 2 (1991)
- Infelici e contenti (1992)
- Fantozzi in paradiso (1993)
- Le nuove comiche (1994)
- Vacanze di Natale '95 (1995)
- Fantozzi – Il ritorno (1996)
- Cucciolo (1998)
- Paparazzi (1998)
- Tifosi (1999)
- Body Guards (2000)
- Merry Christmas (2001)
- Natale sul Nilo(2002)
- Natale in India (2003)
- Christmas in Love (2004)
- Natale a Miami (2005)
- Natale a New York (2006)
- Natale in crociera (2007)
- Natale a Rio (2008)
- Natale a Beverly Hills (2009)
- Natale in Sudafrica (2010)
- Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio (2011)
- Vacanze di Natale a Cortina (2011)
- Lightning Strike (2012)
- Colpi di fortuna (2013)
- Ma tu di che segno sei?(2014)
- Vacanze ai Caraibi (2015)
- Natale da chef (2017)
- In vacanza su Marte (2020)
- Volevo un figlio maschio (2023)
References
- ^ Frini 2005, pp. 9–28.
- ISBN 1-74059-809-1..
- ^ Frini 2005, p. 37.
- ^ Frini 2005, p. 55.
- ^ "Italian film industry falls on hard times". New Straits Times. 15 January 1991. p. 5.
- ^ "Papa' cinepanettoni scomunicato due volte". ANSA.it (in Italian). 12 December 2012.
- ^ "Nessun fulmine vaticano sui cinepanettoni" [No Vatican rage on cinepanettoni]. Vatican Insider (in Italian). La Stampa. 12 December 2012. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012.
- ^ Giordano, Lucio (10 February 2023). "Io non credo in Dio, papa Wojtyla mi ha 'scomunicato', ma io lo ammiro tanto". Dipiù (in Italian). No. 6. pp. 86–89.
- ISBN 88-8837-566-X.
- ^ "Italian Films 2012: The Awards vs The Box Office"". I Love Italian Movies. 3 December 2012.
- ^ Frini 2005, p. 130.
Bibliography
- Frini, Roberto (2005). Neri Parenti (in Italian). Rome: Gremese Editore. ISBN 88-8440-352-9.
- Brunetta, Gian Piero (2009). The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-11988-5.
External links
- Neri Parenti at IMDb
- Neri Parenti - Filmography - Movies & TV, The New York Times, 9 November 2014
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