Monica Bellucci in Bagno San Filippo, Le Meraviglie 2014
La Toscana e il cinema
In oltre cento anni di cinema, la Toscana è stata utilizzata da numerosissimi registi come set cinematografico dove ambientare esterni ed interni ricchi di suggestione.
Questa pagina vi invita a scoprire la Toscana attraverso gli occhi di Franco Zeffirelli, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Jane Campion, Andrey Tarkovsky e Alice Rohrwachter, tra molti altri.
Toscana e il cinema | Mappa
Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwachter, 2014)
Le meraviglie | English Trailer
Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwachter, 2014) is a magical realist portrait of a family of beekeepers in rural Italy, somewhere between Umbria-Lazio and Tuscany.
Le Meraviglie stars Sam Louwyck, Monica Bellucci, Sabine Timoteo, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Agnese Graziani, and Alice’s award-winning sister, actress Alba Rohrwacher. The film was shot in southern Tuscany, in Sorano, Sovana, Bagno San Filippo, and in Bolsano Lake.
Watch Bagno Vignoni in Tarkovsky's film Nostalghia
Bagno Vignoni in Nostalghia. This fragment is one of Tarkovsky's grandest long takes:
Gorchakov's crossing of the drained pool ar Bagno Vignoni in the finale of Nostalghia. He described it to actor Oleg Iankovsky as 'display [ing] all entire human life in one shot, without any editing, from beginning to end, from birth to the very moment of death'. ln case of success, he told Iankovsky, 'the act may be the true meaning of my life. It certainly will be the finest shot I ever made - if you can do it, if you can endure to the end.' [1]
Nel film troviamo delle immagini memorabili del paesaggio toscano e sabino: la misteriosa cripta di Abbadia San Salvatore sul Monte Amiata, la suggestiva Abbazia di San Galgano, l'incantevole Bagno Vignoni, la caratteristica Val d'Orcia, la chiesa allagata di Santa Maria in San Vittorino a Cittaducale (VT) e Roma, in Piazza del Campidoglio.
La location più famosa è senz’altro Bagno Vignoni nella Val D’Orcia.
Maraviglioso Boccaccio, (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 2015)
Vittorio Taviani nasce il 20 settembre del 1929 a San Miniato, in Toscana; poco più di due anni più tardi, l’8 novembre 1931 nasce, sempre a San Miniato, suo fratello Paolo Taviani. La coppia di registi è considerata tra le più importanti del cinema italiano.
Nel 2015 i registi toscani portano sul grande schermo, per l’ennesima volta, un’opera letteraria: questa volta si tratta addirittura del “Decameron” di Giovanni Boccaccio, rappresentato nel film “Maraviglioso Boccaccio”, con Kasia Smutniak e Riccardo Scamarcio.[2]
Dieci giovani, sette donne e tre uomini, che lasciano la Firenze disperata ed appestata del 1300 e si rifugiano in una grande villa, dove a turno, per ingannare il tempo e la drammaticità del momento, si raccontano cinque novelle, interpretate nel film dagli attori principali.
Maraviglioso Boccaccio è stato girato tra la Toscana e il Lazio. Tra le location, in Toscana spiccano la Piazza del Duomo a Pistoia, il Castello di Spedaletto e Torre Tarugi a Pienza, i millenari Castello del Potentino nel comune di Seggiano (Monte Amiata), Badia a Settimo nel comune di Scandicci, Castello Romitorio a Montalcino e Palazzo Nobili-Tarugi a Montepulciano, e la Villa La Sfacciata, che si erge sopra Firenze con una vista spettacolare.
Copia conforme (Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy
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ocation: Cortona (Maec, Piazza Signorelli, Collegiata)
Lucignano (Bar del centro, vicolo del Pellegrino, Museo dell’Albero d’oro, Piazza del Tribunale, Chiesa di S.Francesco, Ristorante da Toto, Residence La Rocca), Monte S.Savino.
Under the Tuscan Sun (Audrey Wells, 2003)
Under the Tuscan Sun - Official Trailer
A recently-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany, in Cortona, hoping it will lead to a change in her life. The trip to Tuscany helps her to recover after her husband’s betrayal and divorce. However, the region enchants her so much, that she decides to stay here forever. The shooting took place near the town of Cortona, in Villa Bramasole.
The movie is based on the memoir of Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun (1996). Other books on Tuscany by Frances Mayes include Bella Tuscany (1999), In Tuscany (2000), Every Day In Tuscany (2010) and Bringing Tuscany home. Sensuous Style From the Heart of Italy (2004).
Under the Tuscan Sun, directed by Audrey Wells. With Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan.
Other films shot in Cortona include
Andre Rieu: Live in Tuscany (2004) (TV), Canterbury proibito (1972), La vita è bella (1997), Life Is Beautiful (1998) (UK) (USA), Moon in Taurus (1980), Der Mond im Zeichen des Stiers (1980) (Switzerland: German title) and Sotto il sole della Toscana (2004) (Italy).
Molto rumore per nulla (Much Ado about Nothing, Kenneth Branagh, 1993)
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, interpreted by Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard and Kate Beckinsale was filmed in Villa Vignamaggio just outside Greve in Chianti.
Villa de Geggiano was the setting for the Bernardo Bertolucci film “Stealing Beauty”, in which Liv Tyler debuted.
Locations were found in Chianti, in the comune Gaiole in Chianti and Castelnuovo Berardenga. Villa di Geggiano has been chosen over the years for many TV and film productions.
The Portrait of a Lady is a 1996 film adaptation of Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady directed by Jane Campion.
The film was mainly shot in Firenze and Lucca and stars Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Duvall, Richard E. Grant, Shelley Winters, Viggo Mortensen, Valentina Cervi, Christian Bale, and John Gielgud.
The film tells the story of Isabel Archer (Kidman), an innocent young woman of independent means who is manipulated by her "friend" Madame Merle (Hershey) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (Malkovich).
Lucca
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Chris Weitz, 2009)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Chris Weitz, 2009), Official Movie Trailer
The Twilight Saga is a series of five romance fantasy films based on the four novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer. The films star Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. Chris Weitz was hired to direct The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Filming for New Moon began in Vancouver in late March 2009, and in Montepulciano, Italy, in late May 2009. Montepulciano and Volterra can be easily discovered in some parts of this story.
Montepulciano
Tuscan Dreams (Wang Xiaoshuai
Wang Xiaoshuai, Tuscan Dreams, a documentary on Tuscany, its landscapes, cities, and traditions. Locations for the film were Pisa, Firenze, Chianti and the Tuscan Maremma.
Heaven (Tom Tykwer, 2002)
Heaven Movie Trailer
Heaven was shot in Montepulciano, (Siena, Tuscany), (Turin, Piedmont) and Bottrop (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) among other places.
Piazza Grande, Montepulciano
Il seme dell'uomo (Marco Ferreri), 1969
Il forte di Macchiatonda (Capalbio) nel film Il seme dell'uomo (Marco Ferreri), 1969
Le location di celebri film in Toscana
[1] Robert Bird, Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema, Reaktion Books, 2008
Robert Bird offers in Andrei Tarkovsky an unprecedented investigation of Tarkovsky’s oeuvre and its far-reaching influence on world cinema.
Bird brings a novel approach to his dissection of Tarkovsky’s wholly original techniques and sensibilities, arranging the films into elemental categories of Water, Fire, Earth, and Air. [2] Fonte: www.cultura.biografieonline.it
Bagno Vignoni was the location in which the majority of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1983 film Nostalghia were shot.
Bagno San Filippo was the location in which parts of Alice Rohrwacher's 2014 film Le Meraviglie were shot.
Villa di Geggiano è stato scelto nel corso degli anni per molte produzioni televisive e cinematografiche. Tra i più famosi utilizzo della Villa è stato per Io ballo da sola di Bernardo Bertolucci.