Biographie
Cristina Comencini was born in Rome in 1956. Her father, Italian director Luigi Comencini, collaborated with her at the start of her career as a screenwriter on films such as Il matrimonio di Caterina (1982), Buon Natale... Buon anno (1989), Quattro storie di donne (1986), Cuore, and La Storia.
After graduating in Economics, she made her directorial debut in 1988 with Zoo, followed by I divertimenti della vita privata (1990), La fine è nota (1992), Va' dove ti porta il cuore (1996), Matrimoni (1998), Liberate i pesci (1999), Il più bel giorno della mia vita (2002), La bestia nel cuore (2005—nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film), Bianco e nero (2008), Quando la Notte (2011), and Latin Lover (2015). In theatre, she wrote and directed the plays Due Partite (2006), Est Ovest (2009), Libere (2010), and La Scena (2013).
As an author, she has published Pagine strappate (1991), Passione di famiglia (1994), Matrioska (2002), La bestia nel cuore (2004), Due partite (2006), L'illusione del bene (2007—nominated for the Premio Strega as Best Book of the Year), Quando la Notte (2009), La nave più bella (2012), Lucy (2014), and Voi non la conoscete (2014).
She is the proud mother of three children: Carlo, Giulia, and Luigi.
13 gagne et 22 nominations
