Matteo Garrone

Matteo Garrone
Garrone at the Berlin Film Festival 2020
Born	(1968-10-15) 15 October 1968 (age 52) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Film director and producer
Known for	Gomorrah, Tale of Tales, Dogman

Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette, that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature, Terra di Mezzo in 1997.

He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for Gomorrah (2008), among many other awards. His film Reality (2012) competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival^[1][2] and won the Grand Prix.^[3]

His films Tale of Tales (2015) and Dogman (2018) were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the 2018 Cannes Film Festival respectively.^[4] The Nastro d'argento awarded Garrone both Best Producer and Best Director with Dogman. He received the latter again for Pinocchio (2019).

Filmography[]

Director[]

Short films[]

• Silhouette (1996)
• Bienvenido espirito santo (1997)
• Un caso di forza maggiore (1997)
• Oreste Pipolo, fotografo di matrimoni (1998)
• Before Design: Classic (2016)
• Delightful (2017)
• Entering Red (2019)
• Le mythe Dior (2020)
• The Tarot Deck (Le château du tarot) (2021)

Feature films[]

• 1996 – Terra di mezzo
• 1998 – Guests (Ospiti)
• 2000 – Roman Summer (Estate romana)
• 2002 – The Embalmer (L'imbalsamatore)
• 2003 – First Love (Primo amore)
• 2008 – Gomorrah (Gomorra)
• 2012 – Reality
• 2015 – Tale of Tales (Il racconto dei racconti)
• 2018 – Dogman
• 2019 – Pinocchio

Producer[]

• Silhouette (1996)
• Terra di mezzo (1996)
• Ospiti (1998)
• Estate romana (2000)
• Mid-August Lunch (2008)

Collaborators[]

Garrone likes to work with the same team of filmmakers, often hiring cast and crew from his previous films. Regular members of the 'team' include:

Collaborators	Terra di mezzo	Guests	Roman Summer	The Embalmer	First Love	Gomorrah	Reality	Tale of Tales	Dogman	Pinocchio
Marco Onorato (Cinematographer)	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Y
Marco Spoletini (Editor)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Domenico Procacci (Producer)				Y	Y	Y	Y
(Producer)							Y	Y	Y	Y
Jeremy Thomas (Producer)								Y	Y	Y
(Production designer)			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
(Production designer)								Y	Y	Y
(Costume designer)								Y	Y	Y
Banda Osiris (Composer)			Y	Y	Y
Alexandre Desplat (Composer)							Y	Y
(co-writer)			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
(co-writer)				Y		Y	Y	Y	Y
(Sound)			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
(actor)						Y	Y			Y

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Luciana d'Arcangeli, ‘Fatalmente tua: Garrone, il noir e le donne’, in the special issue “An Eye on Italy” on Italian Cinema of the e-journal Flinders University Languages Group Online Review – FULGOR, Volume 5, Issue 3, June 2018, pp.14-26 - https://www.fulgor.online/vol5-issue3-2018-forthcoming
• Luciana d'Arcangeli. "The Films of Matteo Garrone: Italian Cinema Is Not Embalmed" in William Hope (ed) "Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium". Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 175–187.
• Pierpaolo De Sanctis, Domenico Monetti, Luca Pallanch. "Non solo Gomorra. Tutto il cinema di Matteo Garrone", Rome, Edizioni Sabinae, 2008.

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