Francesco Carrozzini

Directing

Francesco Carrozzini

Born 1982-09-09 · Monza, Italy

From Wikipedia: Francesco Carrozzini (born September 9, 1982) is an Italian-born director and photographer based in the United States. In 2016, he made his feature directorial debut at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival with the documentary Franca: Chaos and Creation. In 2022, his first narrative feature, The Hanging Sun, closed the 79th Venice International Film Festival. He is known for his portrait photography and has directed music videos for artists including Jay-Z, Lana Del Rey, Beyoncé and Lenny Kravitz. He has also directed commercials for brands such as Apple and Fiat.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Franca: Chaos and Creation poster
7.4

Director Francesco Carrozzini creates an intimate portrait of his mother, Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue. From the ridiculous to the sublime, her astonishing but often controversial magazine covers have not only broken the rules but also set the high bar for fashion, art and commerce over the past 25 years. From the legendary “Black Issue" and the “Plastic Surgery issue" Sozzani remains deeply committed to exploring subject matter off limits to most in order to shake up the status quo and occasionally redefine the concept of beauty.

Franca: Chaos and Creation

2016

The Hanging Sun poster
5.6

On the run from his former employer, a reluctant hitman seeks refuge in an isolated village where he is faced with events that test the true nature of his conscience.

The Hanging Sun

2022

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Developed as a "visual album", Beyoncé's songs are accompanied by non-linear short films that illustrate the musical concepts conceived during production. Its dark and intimate subject material includes feminist themes of sex, monogamous love, and relationship issues, inspired by Beyoncé's desire to assert her full creative freedom.

BEYONCÉ

2014

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Therapist Olga runs an exclusive therapeutic community for people deeply marked by trauma in a remote countryside farmhouse. By her side is her son Lorenzo, fragile and troubled, bound to her by a deeply complex and intimate relationship, The arrival of enigmatic Tommaso, who seems to know long-buried and unspeakable secrets, disrupts the group’s fragile balance and profoundly undermines the bond between mother and son. As manipulation and guilt intensify, the line between healing and madness becomes increasingly blurred, leading to an inevitable reckoning.

Another Mother

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Billie, an ambitious New York art executive, travels to Rome to purchase a valuable painting. When her fiancé confesses he’s in love with another woman, a distraught Billie loses control, botches the deal, and ends up losing her job. Instead of returning home, she decides to stay in Rome – determined, for once, to simply enjoy life. Between aperitivos, reckless adventures, and a string of dates, Billie learns to live in the moment… until she discovers she’s pregnant. Not knowing who the father is, she hires private investigator Tommaso to help her solve the paternity mystery. As they navigate Rome together, their initial friction gives way to an unexpected attraction which turns into an emotional journey that forces both Billie and Tommaso to face their fears – and open up to the possibility of new love.

Blame It on Rome

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The Pinkprint Movie

2015

Twisted Tango poster
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The film takes us into the dreams and desires of a beautiful woman who abandons herself to the arms of Morpheus. A man approaches and dances with her a languorous tango....

Twisted Tango

2004

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A documentary film that chronicles the extraordinary personal and entrepreneurial journey of Renzo Rosso, one of the most visionary figures in international fashion and communication. It tells this story by engaging with and utilizing artificial intelligence in a provocative and original way, placing the debate over the boundaries between human creativity and technology—and between the real and the artificial—at the heart of the film.

Be Brave

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The story of Bestie di Satana, born in northern Italy in the second half of the 90s and continued until 2004 and the last trial in 2007, concerns a group of young people and their descent into hell. The case, with murders and incitements to suicide, had an important echo also abroad.

Bestie di Satana