Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax

Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax

76 mins | Documentary | Aug. 29, 2019

1965: Paris, London and Milan all move at the same fast pace, fueled by a fresh creative and rebellious impetus. Guido Crepax picks up on this energy and transfers it to a comic strip in which art, music, design, film and fashion all blend together, breaking with traditional narrative structure. The dreamy photographer Valentina becomes Crepax' alter ego: as lovely as Louise Brooks, as disturbing as one of Lucio Fontana's slashed canvases, as knowing as Bob Dylan's lyrics, and as freewheeling as Charlie Parker's compositions.

Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax

76 mins | Documentary | Aug. 29, 2019

Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax
1965: Paris, London and Milan all move at the same fast pace, fueled by a fresh creative and rebellious impetus. Guido Crepax picks up on this energy and transfers it to a comic strip in which art, music, design, film and fashion all blend together, breaking with traditional narrative structure. The dreamy photographer Valentina becomes Crepax' alter ego: as lovely as Louise Brooks, as disturbing as one of Lucio Fontana's slashed canvases, as knowing as Bob Dylan's lyrics, and as freewheeling as Charlie Parker's compositions.
Producers RAI, RSI, Laser Film, Bizef Produzione
Original title Cercando Valentina
Directors Giancarlo Soldi
Writers Marco Lodoli, Giancarlo Soldi

Cast

Riccardo Vianello

as Rembrandt

Tinto Brass

as Himself

Milo Manara

as Himself

Mario Martone

as Himself

Guido Crepax

as Himself (archive footage)