Guardami
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{{Infobox film
| name = Guardami
| image = Guardami poster.jpg
| director = Davide Ferrario
| writer =Davide Ferrario
| starring =
| music = Giorgio Canali
| cinematography =Giovanni Cavallini
| editing =
| producer =
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1999|9|7|VFF|1999|9|10|Italy}}
| runtime =
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| budget =
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Guardami is a 1999 Italian drama film written and directed by Davide Ferrario.{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Enrico Lancia |author3=Roberto Poppi |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano|year=1991 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2001|isbn=8884400856}}
The film premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival.{{cite news|last=Ernesto Baldo|title=La Cavallotti vietata ai minori|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/action,detail/id,0507_01_1999_0244_0027_6719992/|accessdate=4 June 2012|newspaper=La Stampa|date=7 Sep 1999}} It is loosely based on the life of Moana Pozzi.{{cite news|last=Tullio Kezich|title= Porno di fuori, Moana nell' anima|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1999/settembre/11/Porno_fuori_Moana_nell_anima_co_0_9909118086.shtml|accessdate=4 June 2012|newspaper=Corriere della Sera|date=11 Sep 1999}}{{cite news|last=Giancarlo Grossini|title= Moana spiegata ai giovani di oggi|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/marzo/06/Moana_spiegata_giovani_oggi_co_7_090306074.shtml|accessdate=4 June 2012|newspaper=Corriere della Sera|date=6 March 2009}} Guardami features some explicit sex scenes that caused a slight controversy at the time.{{cite news|last=Natalia Aspesi|title=Ma quel porno era necessario?|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1999/09/08/ma-quel-porno-era-necessario.html|accessdate=4 June 2012|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=8 Sep 1999}}{{cite news|last=Maria Pia Fusco|title=Che schifezza i corpi addosso|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1999/09/08/che-schifezza-corpi-addosso.html|accessdate=4 June 2012|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=8 Sep 1999}}
Cast
- {{Interlanguage link|Elisabetta Cavallotti|it}} as Nina
- Stefania Orsola Garello as Cristiana
- Flavio Insinna as Flavio
- {{Interlanguage link|Gianluca Gobbi|it}} as Dario
- {{Interlanguage link|Claudio Spadaro|it}} as Baroni
- Luigi Diberti as Castellani
- Angelica Ippolito as Nina's mother
- Yorgo Voyagis as Nina's father
- Antonello Grimaldi as Joe
- Luis Molteni as Max
- Luca Damiano as himself
- Vladimir Luxuria as presenter
Production
It was Elisabetta Cavallotti herself who chose the actor with whom to shoot the unsimulated fellatio scene. "I chose Alex Mantegna because he wasn't too endowed. He was kind, but when I explained why I wanted him, he was offended", she said.{{cite web |title=Le notizie del 8 settembre 1999 |work=www.cinquantamila.it |url=https://www.cinquantamila.it/storyTellerGiorno.php?date=1999-09-08 |access-date=2022-01-30 }}
The scene in which Elisabetta Cavallotti performs on stage was not shot in the studio but directly during an erotic event called Mi Sex. The audience and the guys who takes the stage are not extras but normal people who were there for the event. They did not know that a movie was being made and Cavallotti behaved like one of the many performers who went up on stage to perform, between the eyes (and hands) of the audience.{{cite web |title=Guardami |work=www.davinotti.com |url=https://www.davinotti.com/forum/curiosita/guardami/40007241 |access-date=2022-01-30 }}
Elisabetta Cavallotti said she thought that if she had a boyfriend, she wouldn't have done the movie, because, "I wouldn't be able to go back to him, after having been naked among the naked bodies of men and women, after having taken strangers' dicks in my mouth, having had who knows how many hands on me."{{cite web |title=Che schifezza i corpi addosso |work=repubblica.it |date=8 September 1999 |url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1999/09/08/che-schifezza-corpi-addosso.html |access-date=2022-01-30 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0172518}}
Category:1990s Italian-language films
Category:Films about pornography
Category:1990s erotic drama films
Category:Italian erotic drama films
Category:Films directed by Davide Ferrario
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