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Anna Magnani: Roberto Rossellini
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Magnani battled pancreatic cancer late in her life, and she finally succumbed to the disease in Rome on September 26, 1973. She was 65 years old. It was reported that an enormous crowd turned out for her funeral in Italy, in a final public salute that is more typically reserved for Popes. She was laid to rest in the family mausoleum of Roberto Rossellini, who had remained her longtime friend and favorite director.
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Rossellini conceived the two-part film LOVE as "an homage to the art of Anna Magnani." Contrasting roles - one a tormented bourgeoise, the other a gullible peasant - reveal Magnani's astonishing power and range. CHASTITY is Rossellini's contribution to the wild anthology film RoGoPaG, whose title refers to the work's four directors, who ... included Godard, Pasolini, and Ugo Gregoretti.
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Perfect Sunday fare: Roberto Rosselini's two-parter features Anna Magnani in an adaptation of a Jean Cocteau play, trying to talk her lover out of leaving her. In Part 2 (from a story by Federico Fellini) she believes that she's encountered St. Joseph and that he's fathered her child.
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Además de esta película, Magnani colaboró en otras películas con Rossellini, incluyendo "El amor" (1948). En 1951 protagoniza la película de Luchino Visconti "Bellísima" y en 1953, la película de Jean Renoir "Le carrosse d'or".
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Rossellini's version of Cocteau's famous one-woman play, La Voix Humaine, gave Magnani one of her finest moments on screen. The director said he chose the play because it gave him "the chance to use the camera as a microscope, especially since the phenomenon to examine was called Anna Magnani." Triumphant as the desperate, pleading woman who cannot free herself from the sound of the voice of her unfaithful lover on the telephone, Magnani turned Cocteau's "opera without music" into a "documentary about a woman's suffering."
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