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Bellezza, addio

Bellezza, addio

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 20, 2023

Runtime

1h 18m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Bellezza, addio

Director

Carmen Giardina

Description

In the mid-1990s, news broke that poet Dario Bellezza - who was friends with Sandro Penna, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, and Pier Paolo Pasolini - had AIDS: this was the beginning of the end for him. Today, friends, poets and literary critics tell the story of the first openly gay writer of Italian literature, one of the symbols of a thriving cultural scene. They called him 'Italy's poète maudit', to which his snarky response would be: "If anything, I was blessed, blessed by the Muses".