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Francesco Bruni (screenwriter)

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Occupation
  
Screenwriter Director

Siblings
  
Alessandro Bruni

Nominations
  
Best Screenplay Award


Born
  
30 September 1961 (age 55) (
1961-09-30
)
Rome, Italy

Spouse
  
Raffaella Lebboroni (m. 1992)

Awards
  
David di Donatello for Best Screenplay

Movies
  
Easy!, Human Capital, Noi 4, The First Beautiful Thing, Hardboiled Egg

Similar
  
Paolo Virzì, Raffaella Lebboroni, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Francesco Piccolo, Fabrizio Gifuni

Francesco Bruni (born 30 September 1961) is an Italian screenwriter and director.

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Life and career

Born in Rome, Bruni started his professional career as a screenwriter in 1991, for the film Condominio. In 1994 he started a long collaboration with director Paolo Virzì with Virzì's debut film La bella vita.

In 2011 Bruni made his directorial debut with Easy!, which got him the David di Donatello for Best New Director as well as the Silver Ribbon in the same category.

Bruni teaches screenwriting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.

Selected filmography

  • La bella vita (1994)
  • August Vacation (1995)
  • The Second Time (1995)
  • Ovosodo (1997)
  • Notes of Love (1998)
  • Kisses and Hugs (1999)
  • I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (2000)
  • The Words of My Father (2001)
  • My Name Is Tanino (2002)
  • Nati stanchi (2002)
  • Happiness Costs Nothing (2003)
  • Caterina in the Big City (2003)
  • Napoleon and Me (2006)
  • Il 7 e l'8 (2007)
  • I Vicerè (2007)
  • Your Whole Life Ahead of You (2008)
  • La matassa (2009)
  • The First Beautiful Thing (2010)
  • Marriage and Other Disasters (2010)
  • It May Be Love But It Doesn't Show (2011)
  • Easy! (2011, also director)
  • Every Blessed Day (2012)
  • Human Capital (2013)
  • Studio illegale (2013)
  • Noi 4 (2014, also director)

    • References

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