La comtesse de Castiglione (2000)

Name: La comtesse de Castiglione
Director: David Lodge
Genre: Fantasy
Released: 2000-12-18
Duration: 14 min
Cast: Virginia García, Howard Coggins

14m

Fantasy

Directed by David Lodge Starring Virginia García

Release Date 18 Dec 2000

About La comtesse de Castiglione Movie

Directed by David Lodge, La comtesse de Castiglione (2000) is a Fantasy Movie. It stars Virginia García, Howard Coggins. A surrealistic nightmare inspired by an 1855 photographic portrait, in which the magic tricks of early cinema are used to eerie effect. Creepy and beautiful at the same time, it does not share platitudinous ways to frighten the audience with the vast majority of modern horrors. Countess di Castiglione is a really existed Italian courtesan famous for her beauty and wide acquaintanceship among the ruling elite of those times. She directed Pierre-Louis Pierson to help her create 700 different photographs in which she re-created the signature moments of her life for the camera. Robert de Montesquiou, a Symbolist poet, dandy, and avid art collector, was fascinated by the Countess di Castiglione. He spent thirteen years writing a biography, La Divine Comtesse, which appeared in 1913. After her death, he collected 433 of her photographs, all of which entered the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.