María Luisa Bemberg

María Luisa Bemberg
María Luisa Bemberg
Born	14 April 1922(1922-04-14) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	7 May 1995(1995-05-07) (aged 73) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter

María Luisa Bemberg (14 April 1922 – 7 May 1995) was a pioneer feminist, film writer, director and actress born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the first Latin-American women film directors and a powerful presence in the intellectual Argentina of the 1970-1990. In her work, she specialized in portraying famous South American women and the Argentine upper class.

Early years

The daughter of Otto Eduardo Bemberg and Sofía Bengolea, she was born into one of the most powerful families in Argentina, as her great-grandfather, German Argentine immigrant Otto Bemberg, had established the Quilmes Brewery, Argentina's largest, in 1888.

On October 17, 1945, she married Carlos Miguens. Following their marriage - in the midst of the Perón era - the couple moved to Spain where they had four children before returning to Argentina.

Artistic career

In 1959 she established and managed the Buenos Aires's Teatro Del Globo with her associated Catalina Wolff.

She was one of the founders of the Mar del Plata film festival and the Feminist Union in Argentina.

In 1970, she wrote the script for Raul de la Torre "Crónica de una señora", a successful film on the Argentinean High-class with Graciela Borges and Lautaro Murúa and in 1975 the script for Fernando Ayala's "Triangle of Four".

She founded her own production company (GEA) with Lita Stantic and directed her first film, "Moments", in 1981. Among her films, she wrote and directed "Miss Mary" (with Julie Christie, 1984), Nobody's Wife (1982), Camila (1984), about the persecution and execution of a priest and his lover ordered by Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film), and Yo, la peor de todas (1990), about the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz with Dominique Sanda, Hector Alterio and Assumpta Serna.

Her last film was De eso no se habla (1993), starring Marcello Mastroianni.

She received Konex Awards in 1984 and 1991 and the Honour Konex in 2001, and multiple awards in international film festivals.

She also participated as a jury at the festivals of Cartagena, Berlin,^[1] Chicago and Venice.

At the end of her life, Bemberg was working on a script, based on the story El impostor by Silvina Ocampo (a distant relative) which was made into a film in 1997 directed by her longtime collaborator Alejandro Maci.

She died of cancer in Buenos Aires in 1995, at age 73.

Filmography

Year	Film	Credited as
		Director	Writer	Actor
1997	El impostor (The Impostor)	No	Yes	No
1994	La balada de Donna Helena	No	No	Yes
1993	De eso no se habla (I Don't Want to Talk About It)	Yes	Yes	No
1990	Yo, la peor de todas (I, the Worst of All)	Yes	Yes	No
1986	Miss Mary	Yes	Yes	No
1984	Camila	Yes	Yes	No
1982	Señora de nadie (Nobody's Wife)	Yes	Yes	No
1981	Momentos	Yes	Yes	No
1975	Triángulo de cuatro (Triangle of Four)	No	Yes	No
1971	Crónica de una señora (Chronicle of a Lady)	No	Yes	No

See also

• John King, An Argentine passion: Maria Luisa Bemberg and her films'', 2000, ISBN 1859843085, 9781859843086

• Carlos Miguens Bemberg - One of her sons.
• Camila O'Gorman

References

1. ^ "Berlinale: 1994 Juries". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1994/04_jury_1994/04_Jury_1994.html. Retrieved 2011-06-09. 

External links

• María Luisa Bemberg at the Internet Movie Database
• (Spanish) María Luisa Bemberg at the Fundación Konex website.
• An Argentine Passion, extract
• (Spanish) Lourdes Vázquez. De identidades: María Luisa Bemberg, filmografía y bibliografía:1967-2006.

Persondata
Name	Bemberg, María Luisa
Alternative names
Short description	Film directorScreenwriter
Date of birth	1922-4-14
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death	1995-5-7
Place of death	Buenos Aires, Argentina