Piero Vivarelli, Life as a B-Movie

2019

Italian

6.6

♡ 3

Action

Biography

Documentary

Fabrizio Laurenti Director

Quentin Tarantino as Self

Emir Kusturica as Self

Franco Nero as Self

Beryl Cunningham as Self

The unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who made Italian B-movies of all genres, wrote hit rock songs and penned the screenplay for Sergio Corbucci's Western "Django," adored by Quentin Tarantino, are intertwined in a portrait of an unsung postwar provocateur and revolutionary (the only non-Cuban besides Che Guevara to be given a Cuban Communist Party card signed by Fidel Castro). The creative doc is also a prism into an unexplored territory of Italian — and by extension global — pop culture and its unique vitality.