Disappearance of My Mother
(2020, original release: 2019)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Kino Lorber, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
11846981
LANGUAGE
Italian
NOTES

Title from title frames

Benedetta Barzini wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75, she is fed up with all the roles that life has imposed on her and decides to leave everything and everybody behind, to disappear to a place as far as possible from the gaze of the camera. Only her son Beniamino is permitted to witness her journey. Having filmed her since he was a child despite her resistance, he now wants to make a film about her, to keep her close for as long as possible – or, at least, as long as his camera keeps running. The making of the film turns into a battle between mother and son, a stubborn fight to capture the ultimate image of Benedetta – that of her liberation. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**

Film

In Process Record

Benedetta Barzini

Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2019

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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