Guardami

Guardami
Directed byDavide Ferrario
Written byDavide Ferrario
CinematographyGiovanni Cavallini
Music byGiorgio Canali
Release dates
  • September 7, 1999 (1999-09-07) (VFF)
  • September 10, 1999 (1999-09-10) (Italy)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Guardami is a 1999 Italian drama film written and directed by Davide Ferrario.[1]

The film premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival.[2] It is loosely based on the life of Moana Pozzi.[3][4] Guardami features some explicit sex scenes that caused a slight controversy at the time.[2][5][6]

Cast

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.[7]

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.[8]

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."[9]

References

  1. ^ Roberto Chiti; Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gremese Editore, 2001. ISBN 8884400856.
  2. ^ a b Ernesto Baldo (7 September 1999). "La Cavallotti vietata ai minori". La Stampa. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  3. ^ Tullio Kezich (11 September 1999). "Porno di fuori, Moana nell' anima". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  4. ^ Giancarlo Grossini (6 March 2009). "Moana spiegata ai giovani di oggi". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  5. ^ Natalia Aspesi (8 September 1999). "Ma quel porno era necessario?". La Repubblica. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  6. ^ Maria Pia Fusco (8 September 1999). "Che schifezza i corpi addosso". La Repubblica. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  7. ^ "Le notizie del 8 settembre 1999". www.cinquantamila.it. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Guardami". www.davinotti.com. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Che schifezza i corpi addosso". repubblica.it. 8 September 1999. Retrieved 30 January 2022.