Italian film director Liliana Cavani
is shooting her latest film The Order of Time as she prepares to
celebrate her 90th birthday on January 12.
The film, adapted from the book of the same name by writer and
scientist Carlo Rovelli, stars Alessandro Gassmann, Claudia
Gerini, Edoardo Leo, Ksenia Rappoport, and Valentina Cervi.
Cavani, best known for her controversial 1974 film The Night
Porter on the sadomasochistic relationship between a former Nazi
concentration camp officer played by Dirk Bogarde and one of his
inmates, played by Charlotte Rampling, comes from a great
generation of filmmakers that emerged in the 1970s and includes
the late Bernardo Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini as well as
Marco Bellocchio, still making films like Cavani at the age of
83.
Cavani told ANSA she "felt closest" to Fist in the Pocket
director Bellocchio because they had gone to film school
together.
As for her latest film, Cavani said "I was really interested in
the book and then I got such fantastic actors for the cast".
Cavani, a practising Catholic, also fondly remembered her film
on St Francis of Assisi which she said had enabled her to meet
late pope emeritus Benedict XVI who died on New Year's Eve aged
95.
"It was one of the greatest joys of my life and helped me get to
know the pontiff, an honest man and a philosopher in the deepest
sense of the word".
And though she is now on the brink of her 90th birthday, Cavani
told ANSA that "I still get angry about social injustice".
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