The first part of Hannibal is completely set in Florence: Hannibal Lecter has fled to Italy disguised as a scholar. Jane Campion in The portrait of a lady had an innovative approach to photography and tried to obtain a hyper realistic and suffocating representation of the city, from the point of view of her female lead.Īmong the many Italian movies set in Florence it is worth remembering Family Diary by Carlo Lizzani, who won the Venice Film Festival and is based on the biography of the writer Vasco Pratolini, and interpreted by a young Marcello Mastroianni, with inspired melancholic photography.īrian de Palma and Ridley Scott: mystery in Florence
The Italian journey as a revelation or eye opening experience has been the subject of many productions that mix history, traditions and stereotypes with the main plot: in Light in the Piazza the couple visiting Florence go see the Historical Florentine Football game, in September Affair Joseph Cotten and Joan Fontaine visit the highlights as do Lucy Honeychurch and her chaperon in A Room with a view whereas Franco Zeffirelli’s A tea with Mussolini offers a glimpse of the life of the Anglo-American expats before WWII. Its stained glass dome, the statues and lavish décor are still visible today.Their programs frequently include films in English. The most significant construction was the Odeon Cinema – Theater. Producers and companies were rare and inconsistent: only in the 1920s the studios VIS in the suburbs of Rifredi were used for Romola, a Renaissance drama starring Lillian Gish, but no scene was actually shot in Florence: the city had been completely rebuilt in the studio and in the 1930s they moved permanently to Tirrenia, near Pisa.Īfter the Edison Cinema more and more movie theaters opened in Florence: the Supercinema in the central via Cimatori was inaugurated by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
Florence in the movies: locations, movie theaters, actorsĪs far as we know the first showing of a Lumière film took place in Pitti Palace in 1897, and Florence can boast the first Italian movie theater: the Edison cinema in Piazza della Repubblica opened on June 10th 1900, hosting 100 seats.
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