Betti, Laura

Overview

Works:	139 works in 267 publications in 7 languages and 2,253 library holdings
Roles:	Actor, Performer, Editor, Interviewee, Other, Costume designer, Narrator
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

1960 |

|2020

Key

Publications about Laura Betti

Publications by Laura Betti

Most widely held works about Laura Betti

Potentissima signora : canzoni e dialoghi scritti per Laura Betti ( Book )

Most widely held works by Laura Betti

À ma soeur! Fat girl ( Visual )
4 editions published in 2004 in French and held by 268 libraries worldwide
Chubby pre-adolescent Anaïs is spending the summer with her short-tempered mother, her workaholic father, and her beautiful, boy-crazy older sister, Elena. Elena meets and begins dating Fernando, a handsome, older Italian law student, and makes Anaïs a co-conspirator in Fernando's midnight visits to their shared bedroom. Thus is Anaïs--mute witness to her sister's initiation into sex--left raging with jealousy and self-loathing. Anaïs avers that she is ready for her own sexual adventure, but what will happen when she has it?

Teorema ( Visual )
9 editions published between 1968 and 2007 in Italian and English and held by 222 libraries worldwide
A handsome stranger enters the lives of a bourgeois Italian family and proceeds to seduce each member, including the maid.

La Nuit de Varennes ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1983 and 1987 in French and held by 174 libraries worldwide
The meeting of the French writer, Restif de la Bretonne, Casanova and the exiled American patriot, Thomas Paine in revolutionary France of 1791 provide insight into the flight of Louis XVI and his wife, Marie-Antoinette. The king's capture in the town of Varennes ends the tale and provides the title for the film.

Fat girl ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in French and held by 162 libraries worldwide
Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, Eléna, is a beauty. Eléna meets an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence.

The Canterbury tales ( Visual )
13 editions published between 1971 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 108 libraries worldwide
Pasolini's startling candor and ribald humor illuminate these classic tales of romance, deception, murder and lust.

Pasolini : cronaca giudiziaria, persecuzione, morte ( Book )
10 editions published between 1977 and 1978 in Italian and Undetermined and held by 100 libraries worldwide

Klassenverhältnisse ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in German and held by 86 libraries worldwide

Whoever says the truth shall die ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in Italian and held by 55 libraries worldwide
Explores the controversial life of film director-poet-aesthetician Pier Paolo Pasolini who was murdered in 1975, supposedly by a homosexual contact. Raises the possibility of his death actually being an assassination ordered by a group of right-wing fascists who objected to his non-conformism and Marxism, even though he had been previously expelled from the Communist Party.

The Canterbury tales ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1988 and 2007 in 5 languages and held by 53 libraries worldwide
Pasolini's startling candor and ribald humor illuminate these classic tales of romance, deception, murder and lust.

Le regole di un'illusione : i film, il cinema by Pier Paolo Pasolini ( Book )
4 editions published between 1991 and 1996 in Italian and French and held by 49 libraries worldwide

Bay of blood ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1995 and 2007 in English and held by 46 libraries worldwide
When a group of teenagers stumble upon an apparently deserted resort they find much more than they bargained for.

Hatchet for the honeymoon ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1998 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 46 libraries worldwide
Italian horror master Mario Bava's most personal film. John Harrington and his wife Mildred run an exclusive Paris fashion salon devoted to wedding apparel for women. Unknown to all but himself, John has embarked on a spree of homicides, killing young brides on their wedding nights because, with each murder, his memory comes closer to revealing the traumatic event that branded him a dangerous psychotic. Fed up with his wife (who's no newlywed), John gets rid of her the only way he can, by presiding over her murder while wearing a wedding veil himself! But Mildred's ghost has no intention of letting him forget his vow: Till Death Do Us Part!

Lovers and liars ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1996 and 2001 in English and held by 45 libraries worldwide
Anita (Hawn) is a lonely American with only five days left to her Italian holiday. When she is invited to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa by a handsome and charming Italian banker, Guido (Giannini), she is thrilled. What Anita doesn't know is that not only is Guido married, but he's on his way to Pisa for his father's funeral.

Pier Paolo Pasolini ( Book )
3 editions published between 1978 and 1985 in 3 languages and held by 41 libraries worldwide

Whoever says the truth shall die ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1987 and 2006 in Italian and English and held by 41 libraries worldwide
A low-key documentary about the late Pier Poalo Pasolini, poet, political personality, aesthetician, and director of such important and controversal films as Gospel According to St. Matthew. Explores whether Pasolini's murder at age 53 in 1975 was by Pino the Frog, a 17 year-old male prostitute, or an assassination by a group of right-wing fascists.

Klassenverhältnisse ( Visual )
5 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in German and English and held by 40 libraries worldwide
Based on Kafka's unfinished novel Amerika, Straub and Huillet's version is about class relations and about the society that is created by capitalism.

20 movie star films star studded and celebrity packed ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 38 libraries worldwide
Bail out: Three down-on-their-luck bounty hunters promise to deliver the daughter of a millionaire to trial on drug charges.

Lovers and liars The promise of love ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 37 libraries worldwide
Lovers and liars: Anita (Hawn) is a lonely American with only five days left to her Italian holiday. When she is invited to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa by a handsome and charming Italian banker, Guido (Giannini), she is thrilled. What Anita doesn't know is that not only is Guido married, but he's on his way to Pisa for his father's funeral.

Allonsanfan ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1991 in Italian and held by 35 libraries worldwide
Napoleon's empire has fallen and a disillusioned Jacobin aristocrat is released from prison. He is torn between his revolutionary ideals and comfortable lifestyle in this tragic comedy set in Italy in the year 1819.

I racconti di Canterbury the Canterbury tales ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 32 libraries worldwide
Pasolini's rendering of several of Chaucer's tales of romance, deception, murder, and lust, told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral during the Middle Ages. The middle film of Pasolini's thematic "Trilogy of Life," the other two films being Decameron and Arabian Nights.