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The ones of you following me for a while know I really like the Italian actress Monica Vitti.
The 3rd of november was her eightieth birthday, in the silence of a long illness that confined her for more than a decade now. Reading few articles about her, I realised I really share the common feeling: how much we miss Monica!
Elegant, beautiful, intense and at the same time distant, Monica Vitti is one of the great actresses of Italian cinema. Her distinctive husky voice and innate verve have accompanied us for almost forty years of film career, which ranged in style and talent from dramatic roles with Michelangelo Antonioni to other brighter roles of Italian comedy where she was able to keep up with colleagues such as Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman and Nino Manfredi.
I'd like today to share with you just a few her wonderful pictures, in omage to the many beautiful films and moments of joy she gave us through-out her carreer.

+++ Here the Prizes won by Monica 
Conchiglia d'Argento at Festival di San Sebastian 1968 as best actress main role – La ragazza con la pistola
Festival del Cinema di Venezia 1995, Leone d'Oro alla carriera
David di Donatello: Targa d'oro(1963),
1969: best actress main role – La ragazza con la pistola
1971: best actress main role – Ninì Tirabusciò la donna che inventò la mossa
1974: best actress main role – Polvere di stelle
1976: best actress main role – L'anatra all'arancia
1979: best actress main role – Amori miei

For som other fan out there still not knowing, I found out she wrote two books:

Sette sottane, Milano, Sperling & Kupfer, 1993. ISBN 88-200-1599-4.

Il letto è una rosa, Milano, A. Mondadori, 1995. ISBN 88-043-8763-7.

Here below a more recent picture of stunning sixty-something Monica at one of her book presentations.

{ photo credits | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 }

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