Ciprì & Maresco

Ciprì & Maresco is the name used by the pair of Palermo-born Italian screenwriters and directors Daniele Ciprì (born 17 August 1962) and Franco Maresco (born 5 May 1958).

The couple started collaborating in 1986, and they became popular with "Cinico TV", a Rai 3 series of 49 black-and-white shorts in which they depicted in a grotesque, comical and visionary style the ordinary life of Palermo suburbs.[1] After making their feature film debut in 1995 with The Uncle from Brooklyn, in 1998 their provocative film Totò che visse due volte caused a stir, being temporarily banned by Italian censorship for blasphemy.[1][2] Following a third film (the mockumentary The Return of Cagliostro), a documentary about the comedy duo Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia (How We Got the Italian Cinema Into Trouble: Franco & Ciccio’s Real Story), and two TV-series for La 7, the couple split to pursue solo projects.[3]

Filmography

Feature films
Documentaries
Shorts and medium length films
Television

References

  1. 1 2 Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
  2. David Rooney (March 15, 1998). "Italo gov’t gives ‘Toto’ a go, targets censors". Variety. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  3. Giona A. Nazzaro (8 September 2010). "Il film della settimana: "Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l'Italia fece fuori il più grande clarinettista del jazz" di Franco Maresco". MicroMega. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
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