Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway affair
The Italian Casanova has been dead for more than a decade but his contribution to arts and cinema should not be missed by a cinéaste.
Nothing is better than spending the days watching good old movies from the ’60s and ’70s when you are sick and bedridden. At least, that’s what I did. Digging the stories and films of the Hollywood heyday where artists from Europe and America collaborated to bring us quality works.
Marcello Mastroianni is more than “La dolce vita.” If you find him delectable, check out the excellent film “La Grande bouffe.”
He was married once and had a string of partners in between. He had two children. One of them is Chiara Mastroianni, an actress and fashion designer, with French actress Catherine Deneuve, who served as his lover during the ’70s. She was present at his bedside along with the actor’s wife Flora Carabella when he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72. That time his lover was author and filmmaker Anna Maria Tato.
In 1973, the actor revealed in an interview that he loathed women. The actor, who portrayed breaking the hearts of his onscreen partners, pointed at Faye Dunaway, his costar from the film “Amanti,” a story of an American glam designer who is dying of terminal illness wanting to spend the rest of her life in the arms of a very passionate Italian engineer spending their love affair in a villa.
“I am afraid of women. I am so sad that I have lost her. I never found unhappy moment I spent in her arms. Still I cannot understand how love like that can be over within a week. It was my fault. Work was more important than her. Faye flew to Madrid, met another man there. I was forgotten.”
Faye Dunaway, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Anna Maria Tato, Flora Carabella
November 16th, 2007 at 11:48 am
His revelation brought tears to my
eyes. I read Faye’s side to this,
through her book, but it’s the first
time that I read his side of their
tragic separation.