Luca Guadagnino | Films by the director of Rivals

Born in Palermo, Italy, on August 10, 1971, the filmmaker Luca Guadagnino he even has a degree in film history, but he considers his true “art school” happened at the actress’s dinner table Laura Betti. After becoming friends with the interpreter during college, Guadagnino began attending dinners at her house, often alongside distinguished guests such as the film director Bernardo Bertolucci and the painter Valerio Adami.

It is not difficult to imagine how these influences informed Guadagnino’s “cinema of desire”, full of classical plastic references and eternally concerned with the solidity of the bodies on screen. But if Rivals, currently showing in Brazilian cinemas, it represents a kind of culmination of this trajectory, how about getting to know the films that brought us here? To help, the Omelet Below we have gathered the filmmaker’s entire CV to date.