Movies: Olimpia Carlisi

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a wo...

An English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chatea...

Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation of a dead man....

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular j...

Inspired by the writings by Robert Musil. Won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1968....

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova....

Pisa, 1942. Marcella, Olimpia’s daughter, is suffering from meningioma. Her husband Pierluigi and her brother Daniel attempt to relieve Olympia’s grief from the imminent loss of the child....

The 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops more and more into his search for himself and the confrontation with the question of the meaning of life ......

At the beginning of the twentieth century, two friends, one a homosexual and the other a writer, fall in love with a young divorced woman....

Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works together with the FBI on the profile of a dangerous serial killer....

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the sort seen in City of Pirates....

Beatrice discovers the affair between her husband and the young wife of Ciampa, a man advanced in years and secretly resigned to that infidelity whose existence he openly denies. Beatrice, however, does not intend to do the same, on the contrary: she...

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Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways...

In 1972, what does making a film mean? How does a movie make? What is the relationship between the producer of shows and the spectator? How does meaning travel in the story? These are the questions posed and proposed by the film....