Actress Lea Massari died, “the most French of Italian stars” was 91 years old

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Lea Massari here in “La Flambeuse”, a film of 1980. Therefore, The Italian actress died at 91 years old.

CULTURE – Italian actress Lea Massari. Therefore, known in particular for her roles in the cult film Adventurefrom Michelangelo Antonioni, or Breath to the heart From Louis Malle, died at the age of 91, a member of the Italian government announced on Wednesday 25 June.

According to the Roman daily The messengerthe actress. Consequently, whose latest appearances on the big screen date back to the last century, died on Monday in Rome and her burial took place in Sutri Tuesday, a locality actress lea massari died, “the north of the Italian capital. Furthermore, The Secretary of State for Culture Lucia Borgonzoni praised “An actress with irresistible magnetism and dazzling talent”.

The Italian. in the credits of many known films from the 1960s and 1970s, has shot as much in her native country as in France. At ease in the dramatic register. it was led by leading directors, from Sergio Leone to Claude Sautet, from Francesco Rosi to the Spaniard Carlos Saura.

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Actress with expressive and nuanced game, she filmed with actors like Yves Montand, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gian Maria will, Mel Ferrer and Anthony Perkins, easily accepting supporting roles if the project seemed to her.

Anna Maria Massatani. his real name, born June 30, 1933 in Rome, had met success in 1960 with Adventure (alongside Monica Vitti), who partly tells the actress lea massari died, “the search for a young woman who disappeared before her marriage and who imposes an innovative vision of cinematographic art. A year later. she played in the famous Peplum by Sergio Leone, The Colossus of Rhodeset A difficult life De Dino Risi.

We see it in France in 1964 in The rebellious by Alain Cavalier. with Alain Delon whom she will find in an Italian film by Valerio Zurlini, The professor, in 1972. But it was in 1971. in Breath to the heart From Louis Malle, for her role as a mother with incestuous relationships with her son, whom she is most talked about.

“The most French of Italian stars”

Often described as“The most French actress of Italian stars”Lea Massari then becomes very in demand. successful films are linked: The things of life by Claude Sautet, The hare race through the fields by René Clément, actress lea massari died, “the The silencer by Claude Pinoteau, The son by Pierre Granier-Deferre, Allonfan Taviani brothers, Fear on the city of Henri Verneuil, or Christ stopped in Eboli De Francesco Rosi.

“Beautiful, simple, modest, Léa Massari has often played in the cinema the woman who feels too much. This is how she disappears shortly after the start of Adventure of Antonioni to never come back. that she undergoes her full whip of her filial incest in Breath to the heart trunk. Disappear by leaving a trace ”reacted to AFP Gilles Jacob, former president of the Cannes Film Festival.