1. Luca Guadagnino's films are characterized by their emotional complexity, eroticism, and lavish visuals.
32 Facts About Luca Guadagnino
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Luca Guadagnino made his feature-film debut with The Protagonists, the first of his many collaborations with actress Tilda Swinton.
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Luca Guadagnino's follow-up Melissa P was a commercial success in Italy but was met with mixed critical reception.
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Luca Guadagnino directed several documentaries including Bertolucci on Bertolucci and Salvatore: The Shoemaker of Dreams.
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In 2012, Luca Guadagnino founded the production company Frenesy Film Company.
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Luca Guadagnino produced Belluscone: A Sicilian Story, The Truffle Hunters, Salvatore: The Shoemaker of Dreams, Holiday, and Enea.
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Luca Guadagnino spent his early childhood in Ethiopia, where his father taught history and Italian literature at a technical school in Addis Ababa.
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Luca Guadagnino became interested in film making from around the age of nine, and started making amateur films after receiving a Super 8 camera from his mother.
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Luca Guadagnino developed a passion for cinema in earnest during adolescence and programmed VHS recordings of films shown on television.
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Luca Guadagnino resigned his membership after a dispute with the newspaper editor, over the content of one of his interviews.
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Luca Guadagnino then transferred to the Sapienza University of Rome and completed his degree in literature and cinema history, with a thesis on the American filmmaker Jonathan Demme.
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Luca Guadagnino made his directorial debut with the feature film The Protagonists, which was presented at the Venice Film Festival.
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In 2011, Luca Guadagnino directed Inconscio Italiano, a feature-length documentary film presented at the Locarno Film Festival.
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Luca Guadagnino worked on the documentary Bertolucci on Bertolucci, which was shown at the Venice Film Festival, the London Film Festival and Paris Cinematheque, and 50 other festivals in 2013 and 2014.
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Luca Guadagnino was a producer on the well-received short film Diarchia, directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and starring Luca Guadagnino collaborator Alba Rohrwacher, the short won the Pianifica prize at the Locarno Film Festival, received a special mention at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, was nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards, and won the prize for Best Director of a Short Film at the Nastri d'Argento.
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In 2015, Luca Guadagnino produced Filomarino's debut feature film Antonia, a biopic about Italian poet Antonia Pozzi.
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In 2015, Luca Guadagnino directed the second installment of the Desire Trilogy, erotic thriller A Bigger Splash, with Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson.
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In September 2015, Luca Guadagnino announced at the 72nd Venice Film Festival his plans to direct a remake of Dario Argento's Suspiria.
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In January 2019, it was announced Luca Guadagnino had directed The Staggering Girl a short film, starring Julianne Moore, Kyle MacLachlan, Marthe Keller, KiKi Layne, Mia Goth and Alba Rohrwacher.
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Luca Guadagnino wrote and directed We Are Who We Are an 8-episode limited series for HBO, starring Chloe Sevigny, Kid Cudi, Alice Braga, Jack Dylan Grazer, Spence Moore II, Jordan Kristine Seamon, Faith Alabi, Corey Knight, Tom Mercier, Francesca Scorsese, Ben Taylor and Sebastiano Pigazzi.
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Luca Guadagnino will serve as producer on Hailey Gates' directorial feature debut Atropia, which finished shooting in July 2023, under his Frenesy banner.
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On 3 September 2024, reports emerged that Luca Guadagnino would be directing an adaptation of the DC Comics title Sgt.
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Luca Guadagnino was rumored to have been in talks to direct a film under James Gunn and Peter Safran's new leadership at the studio for several months prior.
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Luca Guadagnino was attached to direct multiple projects including a biographical film about Hollywood hustler Scotty Bowers, and an adaption of Lord of the Flies, with Patrick Ness adapting the book for Warner Bros.
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In March 2024, Luca Guadagnino told la Repubblica his next project would be Separate Rooms, a film adaptation of Pier Vittorio Tondelli's 1989's novel, Camere separate.
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In October 2024, Guadagnino was entering final negotiations to direct a "new interpretation" of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel, American Psycho, with Scott Z Burns adapting for Lionsgate.
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Luca Guadagnino has served twice on the jury of the Torino Film Festival: in 2003 for the short flm section and in 2006 for the official jury.
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Luca Guadagnino headed the jury for Louis Vuitton's Journey Awards in 2012, an international competition dedicated to young filmmakers.
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Luca Guadagnino participated as a jury member in the first edition of Fashion Film Festival Milano in 2014, chaired by Franca Sozzani, chief editor of Vogue Italia.
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Luca Guadagnino usually has a long-standing group of actors and crew who participate in most of his work.
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Rohrwacher has appeared in The Staggering Girl as well as in the Luca Guadagnino produced short Diarchia.
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Luca Guadagnino lived and worked in a 17th-century palazzo in Crema.