Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax

Overview

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.

Directed by Giancarlo Soldi

Top cast

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Riccardo Vianello

Rembrandt

Tinto Brass

Himself

Milo Manara

Himself

Mario Martone

Himself

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Guido Crepax

Himself (archive footage)

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