Film

Bellezza, addio

2023 · 1h 18m · Documentary

In the mid-1990s, news broke that poet Dario Bellezza - who was friends with Sandro Penna, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, and Pier Paolo Pasolini - had AIDS: this was the beginning of the end for him. Today, friends, poets and literary critics tell the story of the first openly gay writer of Italian literature, one of the symbols of a thriving cultural scene. They called him 'Italy's poète maudit', to which his snarky response would be: "If anything, I was blessed, blessed by the Muses".

Barbara Alberti

Antonella Amendola

Ulisse Benedetti

Franco Cordelli

Ninetto Davoli

Giuseppe Garrera

Maurizio Gregorini

Fiammetta Jori

Renzo Paris

Elio Pecora

Paco Reconti

Nichi Vendola

• Carmen GiardinaDirector
• Massimiliano PalmeseDirector

Release date

June 20, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

Italian

Runtime

1h 18m

Genres

Documentary