Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an

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filmmaker. Born in

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, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the ''Sacher d'Oro'', an award sponsored by

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, with the short film ''Silhouette'', that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature, ''Terra di Mezzo'' in 1997. He won Best Director at the

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and at the

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for '' Gomorrah'' (2008), among many other awards. His film ''

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'' (2012) competed in competition at the

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and won the

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. His films '' Tale of Tales'' (2015) and '' Dogman'' (2018) were selected to compete for the

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at the

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and the

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respectively. The

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awarded Garrone both Best Producer and Best Director with ''Dogman''. He received the latter again for ''

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'' (2019).

Filmography

Director

Short films

* ''Silhouette'' (1996) * ''Bienvenido espirito santo'' (1997) * ''Un caso di forza maggiore'' (1997) * ''Oreste Pipolo, fotografo di matrimoni'' (1998) * ''Before Design: Classic'' (2016) * ''Delightful'' (2017) * ''Entering Red'' (2019) * ''Le mythe Dior'' (2020) * ''The Tarot Deck'' (''Le château du tarot'') (2021)

Feature films

* 1996 – ''Terra di mezzo'' * 1998 – ''Guests'' (''Ospiti'') * 2000 – ''Roman Summer'' (''Estate romana'') * 2002 – '' The Embalmer'' (''L'imbalsamatore'') * 2003 – ''

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'' (''Primo amore'') * 2008 – '' Gomorrah'' (''Gomorra'') * 2012 – ''

'' * 2015 – '' Tale of Tales'' (''Il racconto dei racconti'') * 2018 – '' Dogman'' * 2019 – ''

Producer

* ''Silhouette'' (1996) * ''Terra di mezzo'' (1996) * ''Ospiti'' (1998) * ''Estate romana'' (2000) * ''

Mid-August Lunch ''Mid-August Lunch'' (originally released as ''Pranzo di ferragosto'') is a 2008 Italian comedy-drama and the directorial debut of Italian actor and screenwriter Gianni Di Gregorio. It was produced by Italian writer-director Matteo Garrone whose ...

'' (2008)

Collaborators

Garrone likes to work with the same team of filmmakers, often hiring cast and crew from his previous films. Regular members of the 'team' include:

References

Bibliography

*Luciana d'Arcangeli, ‘Fatalmente tua: Garrone, il ''noir'' e le donne’, in the special issue “An Eye on Italy” on Italian Cinema of the e-journal Flinders University Languages Group Online Review – ''FULGOR,'' Volume 5, Issue 3, June 2018, pp.14-26 - https://www.fulgor.online/vol5-issue3-2018-forthcoming *Luciana d'Arcangeli. "The Films of Matteo Garrone: Italian Cinema Is Not Embalmed" in William Hope (ed) "Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium". Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 175–187. *Pierpaolo De Sanctis, Domenico Monetti, Luca Pallanch. "Non solo Gomorra. Tutto il cinema di Matteo Garrone", Rome, Edizioni Sabinae, 2008.

External links

IMDb: Matteo Garrone
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