Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, who delighted audiences around the world with his romantic vision and often extravagant productions, most famously captured in his cinematic 'Romeo and Juliet,' has died in Rome at 96.
ROME — Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, who delighted audiences around the world with his romantic vision and often extravagant productions, most famously captured in his cinematic"Romeo and Juliet," has died in Rome at 96.
"I am not a film director. I am a director who uses different instruments to express his dreams and his stories - to make people dream," Zeffirelli told The Associated Press in a 2006 interview. But Zeffirelli was best known outside Italy for his colorful, softly-focused romantic films. His 1968"Romeo and Juliet" brought Shakespeare"s story to a new and appreciative generation, and his"Brother Sun, Sister Moon," told the life of St. Francis in parables involving modern and 13th-century youth.
On the other hand, piqued by American criticism of his 1981 movie"Endless Love," starring Brooke Shields, Zeffirelli said he might never make another film in the U.S. The movie, as he predicted, was a box office success. His experiences with the British expatriate community under fascism, and their staunch disbelief that they would be victimized by Benito Mussolini's regime, were at the heart of the semi-autobiographical 1991 film"Tea with Mussolini."
After a short-lived acting career, Zeffirelli worked with Luchino Visconti's theatrical company in Rome, where he showed a flair for dramatic staging techniques in"A Streetcar Named Desire" and"Troilus and Cressida." He later served as assistant director under Italian film masters Michelangelo Antonioni and Vittorio De Sica.
Zeffirelli returned to prose theater in 1961 with an innovative interpretation of"Romeo and Juliet" at London's Old Vic. British critics immediately termed it"revolutionary," and the director used it as the basis of frequent later productions and the 1968 film. The film, with Teresa Stratas and Placido Domingo in the lead roles, found near-unanimous critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic — a rarity for Zeffirelli — and received Oscar nominations for costuming, scenography and artistic direction.
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