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The filmmaking career of Carmelo Bene (1937 - 2002) lasted from 1968 to 1973, six years out of a lengthy time spent in the theater that made Bene one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian avant-garde in the second half of the 20th century. Bene first made a name for himself with a controversial production of Camus’ Caligula in Rome in 1959. Subsequent productions retained this sense of notoriety, and Bene (like Pasolini) quickly acquired a police record. Bene, however, would come to bemoan the controversy his work created, because it attracted an audience looking for shocks and titillation, while he himself was more concerned with reinventing the vocabulary of the theater: sets, gestures, texts. Bene’s turn to cinema expanded that quest to reinvent. His films resist synopsis because, although they are often derived from narrative sources, Bene uses these sources against themselves and as a springboard for his critique of the stultifying traps of representation and interpretation. The films are wildly inventive and visually arresting on several levels: the performance styles of his actors, including eccentric movements, gestures and grimaces; the sets, costumes and makeup; the editing; and the use of the camera, with stable shots regularly punctuated by handheld camera work, extreme close ups and the occasional baroque use of zooms, dollies, cranes, elaborate pans and exaggerated camera angles. They resemble something like the work of Jack Smith crossed with the experimental Pasolini of Teorema and Pigsty. One constant feature of Bene’s work is its satire of heterosexuality. The two sexes keep trying to communicate with each other, but always fail to do so. Bene’s work constantly deflates masculinist pretenses at mastery: his male characters tend to be hapless and often hysterical, while his female characters are alternately predatory and remote, and unknowable in either case. But this satire is merely the most visible form of Bene’s revolt against convention and communication. Over and over again in the films, everyday actions become hopelessly complicated or endlessly interrupted. His characters often end up staring quizzically offscreen or even into mirrors, as if they were no more sure than we are of the meaning of what they see. Indeed, identity and by extension agency seem to get suspended, along with meaning. What is left is glorious spectacle and enigmas for the eyes and ears: endless music; babbling, stuttering text; excessive and exciting images. – David Pendleton
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1937-09-03
- event Death Date 2002-03-16
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 1.5
- info Birth Place Campi Salentina, Lecce, Italia
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Carmelo Bene
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Bis
1966-01-01
6.8
Oedipus Rex
1967-09-07
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Riccardo III
1981-12-07
6.4
Our Lady of the Turks
1968-09-03
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Carmelo Bene, il canto d'amore di Alfred J. Prufrock
1967-07-10
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La poesia dimenticata
1982-01-01
5.1
Don Giovanni
1970-05-13
4.8
Necropolis
1970-10-31
5.5
Catch As Catch Can
1967-10-26
4
Red Hot Shot
1970-03-31
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L'Adelchi di Alessandro Manzoni in forma di concerto
1985-09-09
1
Otello o la deficienza della donna
2002-03-18
5.8
Capricci
1969-11-15
6
Tre nel mille
1971-03-06
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Modi di vivere - Giorgio Colli. Una conoscenza per cambiare la vita
1980-01-01
7.2
Hermitage
1968-01-01
7
Salome
1972-10-20
7.4
The Last Days of Humanity
2023-05-08
7.5
BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale
2022-12-20
7.3
One Hamlet Less
1973-11-21
7.7
Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza
1999-05-29
6.5
Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)
1978-04-21
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Manfred, versione per concerto in forma di oratorio
1983-09-12
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Macbeth Horror Suite
1997-04-05
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Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak
1977-10-27
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In-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio)
1997-01-01
4
Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue)
1990-11-25
6.5
Umano non umano
1969-05-07
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Ventriloquio
1973-05-01
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Cos'è il teatro?!
1990-12-12
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Ai Rotoli
1996-01-01
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Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi
2003-09-01
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Voce dei Canti
1998-12-01
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Carmelo nei Canti Orfici
1996-08-01
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Un'ora prima di Amleto, più Pinocchio
1965-01-01
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Riccardo III
1981-12-07
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Riccardo III
1981-12-07
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Our Lady of the Turks
1968-09-03
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Don Giovanni
1970-05-13
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Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)
1978-04-21
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Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)
1978-04-21
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Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza
1999-05-29
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One Hamlet Less
1973-11-21
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Salome
1972-10-20
0
Capricci
1969-11-15
0
Hermitage
1968-01-01
0
L'Adelchi di Alessandro Manzoni in forma di concerto
1985-09-09
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Salome
1972-10-20
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Salome
1972-10-20
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La poesia dimenticata
1982-01-01
0
Otello o la deficienza della donna
2002-03-18
0
One Hamlet Less
1973-11-21
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Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza
1999-05-29
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Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza
1999-05-29
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Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza
1999-05-29
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Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza
1999-05-29
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Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza
1999-05-29
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Our Lady of the Turks
1968-09-03
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Our Lady of the Turks
1968-09-03
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Hermitage
1968-01-01
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Our Lady of the Turks
1968-09-03
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Hermitage
1968-01-01
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Capricci
1969-11-15
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Our Lady of the Turks
1968-09-03
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Capricci
1969-11-15
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Don Giovanni
1970-05-13
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Our Lady of the Turks
1968-09-03
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Don Giovanni
1970-05-13
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Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)
1978-04-21
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Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)
1978-04-21
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Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)
1978-04-21
0
Manfred, versione per concerto in forma di oratorio
1983-09-12
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Manfred, versione per concerto in forma di oratorio
1983-09-12
0
Macbeth Horror Suite
1997-04-05
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Macbeth Horror Suite
1997-04-05
0
One Hamlet Less
1973-11-21
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One Hamlet Less
1973-11-21
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One Hamlet Less
1973-11-21
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Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue)
1990-11-25
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In-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio)
1997-01-01
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Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak
1977-10-27
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In-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio)
1997-01-01
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Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue)
1990-11-25
0
In-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio)
1997-01-01
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Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak
1977-10-27
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Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue)
1990-11-25
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In-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio)
1997-01-01
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Ventriloquio
1973-05-01
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Ventriloquio
1973-05-01
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Cos'è il teatro?!
1990-12-12
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Quattro momenti su tutto il nulla
2001-12-11
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Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi
2003-09-01
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Voce dei Canti
1998-12-01
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Carmelo nei Canti Orfici
1996-08-01