Cristina Comencini
Italian film director, and novelist
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- Cristina Comencini ( Italian: [kriˈstiːna komenˈtʃiːni] ; born 8 May 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist.
- She attended with her sisters the Lycée français Chateaubriand in her native city of Rome.
- Her upcoming film When the Night , also based on her own novel and published in the United States by Other Press, is scheduled to compete in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September.
Cristina Comencini (Italian: [kriˈstiːna komenˈtʃiːni]; born 8 May 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist.
Biography
She is one of four daughters of Italian film director Luigi Comencini. She attended with her sisters the Lycée français Chateaubriand in her native city of Rome.
Cristina Comencini's 2005 film The Beast in the Heart, based on her own novel La bestia nel cuore, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her upcoming film When the Night, also based on her own novel and published in the United States by Other Press, is scheduled to compete in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September.
She is the mother of former Minister of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda.
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