25 Facts About Lorenza Mazzetti

Lorenza Mazzetti was an Italian film director, novelist, photographer and painter.

When Corrado Mazzetti realised that the nurse was taking advantage of his absence and leaving the children alone while he was out at work, his friend Ugo Giannattasio, a futurist painter, offered to temporarily take care of them.

Between 1952 and 1953, Mazzetti worked on her first film, K The participation in the early stages by fellow Slade student Andrew Vicari has been described by a then-friend of both.

Lorenza Mazzetti invited Denis Forman, the director of the British Film Institute.

The montage works, guided by Lorenza Mazzetti, were finished thanks to an intervention by Anderson.

Lorenza Mazzetti called on Daniele Paris from Rome to write and direct the soundtrack.

Lorenza Mazzetti wished to see her twin sister, who in the meantime had given birth to a daughter.

The manuscript was rejected by several editors until Lorenza Mazzetti sent it to Cesare Zavattini.

Lorenza Mazzetti reacted with enthusiasm and presented it to Attilio Bertolucci, publisher of Garzanti.

Worried that the tone of her story could offend the memory of the Einstein family, Lorenza Mazzetti changed the names of the protagonists.

Lorenza Mazzetti confessed to the publisher that rather than a novel, the book was more her own biography.

Lorenza Mazzetti accepted, but after the shooting decided to leave the film world because the "cinema verita'" did not interest her.

Thanks to her prizes and the public recognition that Lorenza Mazzetti had gained in the meantime, she was offered a collaboration with the magazine Vie Nuove by the Partito Comunista.

Lorenza Mazzetti wrote a weekly column for the magazine, in which she invited the reader to tell her their dreams.

Lorenza Mazzetti then interpreted these dreams together with Jungian psychoanalyst Vincenzo Loriga.

Later, in the surroundings of the Campo de' Fiori, Lorenza Mazzetti started the "Puppet Theatre", a marionette theatre for children.

In 1974 Lorenza Mazzetti met Luigi Galletti, a partisan of the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica of Giovanni Pesce.

Lorenza Mazzetti was dressed up as the marshall Harold Alexander.

Lorenza Mazzetti was a fascinating and humorous man and an esteemed doctor.

Lorenza Mazzetti pulled him into the work of the puppet theatre, where he performed the voices of the king, the giant and the wolf.

Later in her life, Lorenza Mazzetti developed a career as a painter, which culminated in two exhibitions: "The Album di famiglia" with 80 paintings illustrating the events described in the novel Il Cielo cade: and "A proposito del Free Cinema" where she created portraits of key figures of English cinema during the 50s and 60s.

Furthermore, Diario Londinese is a kind of prequel in which Lorenza Mazzetti describes the beginnings of the Free Cinema and the Angry Young Men.

Lorenza Mazzetti wanted to talk with young people in order to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, by the example of the tragedy of the Einstein family, a massacre that would have been kept a secret if not for her book.

On 4 January 2020, Lorenza Mazzetti died in Rome at age 92.

Lorenza Mazzetti appears as a minor but significant character in the 2020 novel Summer by Ali Smith; her life story, as well as references to her early films, are included.