Posts Tagged ‘ Zeffirelli ’

Tea with Mussolini, Zeffirelli

Feb 25th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Movies

Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Zeffirelli looks at the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman. The boy’s mother has died, and he is raised by an Englishwoman in pre world war II Fascist Italy. Living to each other in Florence, and presided over by an ambassador’s widow, a group of Englishwomen [...]



Pienza: Zeffirelli “Romeo and Juliet”

Feb 25th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Movies

Walk around the square and the main road of Pienza and look for the places where Zeffirelli filmed his beautiful  “Romeo and Juliet”, already in year 1968. The film won two Oscar (best costumes and best photography) and three Golden Globe (best foreign film, best female promise, best male promise)