Le couples of film professionals who have had the most troubled loves in history. We usually only know them by their names, but in detail. That is why it is healthy to follow Love Stories - on Sky Arte every Friday at 21.15 starting tonight - with the new portraits of the relationships between great Hollywood characters and the suburbs, between great stars and between actresses and directors. Relations that they entertained magazine readers with endless doses of scandals, passions and betrayals.
The turbulent love of Ali McGraw and Steve McQueen
Protagonists of the first episode of the new cycle they will be the reckless star Steve McQueen and the actress Ali MacGraw, Seventies icons. The meeting on the set of Getaway!, in 1971, starts a very chic relationship - comparable for "bustle" and the beauty of the subjects to the hype of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. A fiery relationship that is shipwrecked however just as quickly, a few years later, in 1978. Per incompatibility and numerous betrayals.
Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini: the scandal
The second episode, always on air Friday 17, will follow the dynamics of one of the most scandalous triangles in cinema, telling a love story so exciting that it has nothing to envy to the plot of Casablanca.
It's about the link between the actress Ingrid Bergman, then married, and the director Roberto Rossellini, at the time companion of Anna Magnani. It all starts with a letter, sent by the Swedish diva to Rossellini in 1948 by the Swedish diva. That kidnapped by his talent contacts him after having seen the masterpieces of the neorealist director: Rome city open e Paisa.
After a first meeting in Paris love blossoms, and Rossellini entrusts Bergman with the lead role in Stromboli (Land of God), originally entrusted to Magnani. The couple will have three children, but their marriage, which lasted only seven years, it will end in divorce in 1957.
Monica Vitti and Michelangelo Antonioni, a couple outside the box
Love Stories will continue with the story of one of the most followed gossip of the 60s. The episode of 24th April will be dedicated to the relationship between Monica Vitti e michelangelo antonioni.
The actress quickly became the muse of her own tetralogy incommunicability of (The adventure, The night, The eclipse e Deserto rosso), in which she masterfully plays whipped and alienated characters, she also becomes his partner. Forming one of the chicest artist-intellectual pairs of the time. Elusive and mysterious, but secretly fighting for the conquest of their spaces.
The stormy marriage of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli
The romantic cycle ends on 1st May, when it's up to love between Judy Garland, a total artist recently celebrated with biopic of which Renée Zellweger, and the director Vincent minnelli. It was 1944 when the two fell in love on the set of Meet Me in St.Louis. From the marriage, which collapsed in 1951 under the blows of the lifestyles of the couple and Garland's dependencies, another star of cinema and singing is born, Liza Minnelli.
