Why did you make just a few films?įrancesco Barilli: Because I’m not a director, after all. Barilli, you have been in the movies for almost forty years. With only a handful of films to his credit, nonetheless Barilli remains one of Italian genre cinema’s most interesting, uncompromising and original personalities. After a long hiatus during which he focused on painting, he returned behind the camera in late eighties: other film credits include the omnibus La domenica specialmente (1991: co-directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci, Marco Tullio Giordana and Giuseppe Tornatore) and the successful TV movie Giorni da leone (2002). In 1974 Barilli directed his first film, the stunning Il profumo della signora in nero ( The Perfume of the Lady in Black, one of the hidden gems of Italian horror, followed by the little-seen Pensione paura (1978), starring Luc Merenda. He made his debut in cinema as an actor in Antonio Pietrangeli’s La parmigiana (1963), and the following year he starred in his friend and fellow citizen Bernardo Bertolucci’s Prima della rivoluzione ( Before the Revolution, 1964), then he tried his hand as a scriptwriter with Aldo Lado’s morbid thriller Chi l’ha vista morire ( Who Saw Her Die ?, 1972) and Umbero Lenzi’s adventure/cannibal flick Il paese del sesso selvaggio ( Man From Deep River, 1972). Thanks to Stefano Lecchini for his contributionīorn in Parma in 1943, Francesco Barilli belongs to a family of artists and is himself a celebrated painter.

Francesco Barilli Interview Cinema Between Brush Strokesīy Roberto Curti Volume 15, Issue 12 / December 2011 44 minutes (10946 words)

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