“Politics was the main kind of nourishment,” he told Film Comment in 2014. His early work frequently targeted Fascism and was heavily influenced by his political leanings: “I was a Marxist with all the love, all the passion, and all the despair one can expect from a bourgeois who chooses Marxism,” Bertolucci told Cahiers du Cinéma in 1965. They had no children.īertolucci directed such films as Last Tango in Paris, Before the Revolution, The Conformist, and The Last Emperor (the last of which earned nine Academy Awards, including best picture and best director). He had been married since 1978 to filmmaker Clare Peploe. His publicist confirmed that he died of cancer after a short illness. He had spent the past decade and a half confined to a wheelchair after a series of back surgeries.
Bernardo Bertolucci, a key figure in filmmaking’s New Wave movement who successfully made the leap to big-screen Hollywood stardom and became a cinematic icon, died on Monday morning in Rome.
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