Pierre Clémenti

Pierre Clémenti

Pierre Clementi (1942-1999). On the screen and on stage, she was the embodiment of ambiguous beauty and a certain rogue elegance, and also to a certain extent of the aspirations and contradictions of the revolts that in the sixties and seventies of the last century agitated half of the of the world. A rare actor who never considered himself a mere performer and who refused to be made a star. Despite this, he participated in more than seventy films and collaborated with filmmakers such as Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini or Philippe Garrel, although he said no to Federico Fellini. As if that weren't enough, with his small 16mm Beaulieu he shot a dozen films and became one of the references of French underground cinema of those same decades. A cancer of the liver killed him shortly before the end of the twentieth century, when he had just turned fifty-seven.