The documentary film Cercando Valentina: il mondo di Guido Crepax (Looking for Valentina: the world of Guido Crepax) is about an Italian author and comic book artist, born in Milan in 1933. Crepas, known as Crepax, was a great innovator who melded elements of art, design, music, and fashion into his comic books. Valentina is perhaps the most famous of his characters and the film takes a real journey between past and present on the trail of this female icon, whose sensuality conquered not only its creator, but an entire generation. Journalists, directors, scriptwriters, and musicians will recount the story of how she influenced an era.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This documentary is about Guido Crepax, the creator of a famous fumetto (comic strip) that came out in 1965. The main characters are Philip Rembrandt, an art critic, and Valentina Rosselli, a photojournalist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Crepax started out with one protagonist, Philip Rembrandt, but gradually phased him out, along with his superpowers. Valentina then took over as the protagonist. Crepax talks about Milan in the sixties.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In 1963 Crepax got his start in the world of comic books and two years later created his famous character, Valentina. The comic strip first appeared in the anthology comic book, "linus," founded by Giovanni Gandini, who had known Crepax as a kid.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Filmmakers Tinto Brass and Giuseppe Tornatore comment on how some elements of expressivity are shared between comic strips and the cinema.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Crepax's Valentina was an intriguing character because she openly reflected the sexual freedom of the late sixties and was attractive to both men and women. It was very "in" to be seen walking around with an issue of "Linus," an Italian comics magazine published in Italy beginning in 1965.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Valentina's success coincided with the beginnings of feminist movements in Italy. She depicted a woman who was strong and independent, who could do anything a man could do, a departure from the stereotype of the Italian housewife.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Among the pages of the comic strip, family members find familiar objects, drawings, and personal information from their everyday life. Although Valentina was a figment of Crepax's imagination, she was also an integral part of his family.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
One of Crepax's techniques is to use the details of everyday life to build his stories and provide context. We even see the titles of the books in Valentina's bookcase.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Besides his much better known activity as a graphic artist, Crepax was a keen wargamer and wargame designer and collector of paper soldiers, drawn by himself.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Crepax loved playing at battles and would change the outcomes, using his friends to fine-tune the moves. He had some famous personalities as willing participants in the games, too.
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