Francesco Bruni

Writing

Francesco Bruni

Born 1961-09-30 · Rome - Lazio - Italy

Cresciuto a Livorno, città d'origine della madre[1], ha iniziato la propria carriera nel 1991, con la cosceneggiatura del film Condominio di Felice Farina. Dal 1994 ha scritto le sceneggiature dei film del regista Paolo Virzì (La bella vita, Ferie d'agosto, Ovosodo, Baci e abbracci, My Name Is Tanino, Caterina va in città, N (Io e Napoleone) e Tutta la vita davanti) e dal 1995 al 2003 anche quelle dei film del regista Mimmo Calopresti (La seconda volta, La parola amore esiste, Preferisco il rumore del mare, La felicità non costa niente). Ha inoltre lavorato con Franco Bernini (soggetto e sceneggiatura del film Sotto la luna), David Riondino (Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici), Francesca Comencini (Le parole di mio padre) e con i comici Ficarra e Picone (Nati stanchi, Il 7 e l'8, La Matassa). Ha collaborato alle sceneggiature de I Viceré di Roberto Faenza, tratto dall' omonimo romanzo di Federico De Roberto, e del film, in uscita nel 2008, Miracle at St. Anna, di Spike Lee. Ha anche contribuito al soggetto del lungometraggio in quattro episodi 4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo, prodotto da Paolo Virzì Per la televisione ha adattato per la serie del Commissario Montalbano, i racconti e romanzi di Andrea Camilleri e per la serie Il commissario De Luca quelli di Carlo Lucarelli. Ha inoltre sceneggiato il film TV Il tunnel della libertà, per la regia di Enzo Monteleone. Come attore ha recitato in una piccola parte nel film La guerra degli Antò di Riccardo Milani (1999). Insegna sceneggiatura presso il Centro sperimentale di cinematografia di Roma. Nel 2011 esordisce alla regia con Scialla! presentato al Festival di Venezia 2011 nella sezione Controcampo Italiano, dove viene riconosciuto con il premio per i lungometraggi narrativi.[2]

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Let Yourself Go poster
6.1

Depressed Jewish shrink Elia one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.

Let Yourself Go

2017

Five Seconds poster
6.7

Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards.

Five Seconds

2025

Human Capital poster
7.4

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

Human Capital

2013

My Name Is Tanino poster
6.3

During a sun-soaked Sicilian summer, aimless filmmaking undergrad and back-seat radical Tanino has a fling with Sally, a dreamy American tourist from an upper background. When summer ends, Sally flies back home, without ever reaching out. Clueless, a smitten Tanino decides to pay her a surprise visit under the pretense of returning a camera she left behind. But when he gets there, he quickly realizes the reality of America—and his relationship with Sally's—is far from the idealized version his small-town boy imagination conjured.

My Name Is Tanino

2003

Napoleon and Me poster
6.1

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.

Napoleon and Me

2006

Everything's Gonna Be Alright poster
7.2

Bruno Salvati is a director of little success, fresh from the separation from his wife Anna with whom he had two children, the twenty-year-old Adele and the seventeen-year-old Tito. Following a sudden illness, Bruno is diagnosed with a disease that requires the intervention of a donor. All his family relationships are called into question, including that with his father Umberto, the custodian of a secret that will force Bruno to embark on a journey in search of someone who can help him.

Everything's Gonna Be Alright

2020

Everything's Gonna Be Alright poster
7.2

Bruno Salvati is a director of little success, fresh from the separation from his wife Anna with whom he had two children, the twenty-year-old Adele and the seventeen-year-old Tito. Following a sudden illness, Bruno is diagnosed with a disease that requires the intervention of a donor. All his family relationships are called into question, including that with his father Umberto, the custodian of a secret that will force Bruno to embark on a journey in search of someone who can help him.

Everything's Gonna Be Alright

2020

La matassa poster
6.7

Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia.

La matassa

2009

A Whole Life Ahead poster
6.6

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.

A Whole Life Ahead

2008

The First Beautiful Thing poster
7.2

The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.

The First Beautiful Thing

2010

Ovosodo poster
7.2

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

Ovosodo

1997

Every Blessed Day poster
6.8

Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposed characters and backgrounds. He works a night job as a doorman, while she works all day in a car rental service. This is the story of what happens when they decide to have a child.

Every Blessed Day

2012

Another Summer Holiday poster
6.0

Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global event attracting the media as well as mysterious emissaries from the new political regime. These two tribes of vacationers, two seemingly irreconcilable sides of Italy, are destined to come together during the Ferragosto holiday for an ultimate showdown.

Another Summer Holiday

2024

Caterina in the Big City poster
6.5

When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.

Caterina in the Big City

2003

Slam poster
5.8

Samuele is 16 and has a passion for skateboarding. He has big dreams: going to university, move to California, and travel, but things change when he meets Alice, who could be the girl of his life.

Slam

2016

Everything You Want poster
7.4

An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their daily walks, the two banter and become friends, and Alessandro quickly learns more about this forgotten poet as the old man’s memory drifts. After learning a secret from Giorgio’s past, Alessandro and his friends work to uncover the mystery of this tale, an unexpected history lesson and a touching coming-of-age adventure.

Everything You Want

2017

Everything You Want poster
7.4

An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their daily walks, the two banter and become friends, and Alessandro quickly learns more about this forgotten poet as the old man’s memory drifts. After learning a secret from Giorgio’s past, Alessandro and his friends work to uncover the mystery of this tale, an unexpected history lesson and a touching coming-of-age adventure.

Everything You Want

2017

Everything You Want poster
7.4

An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their daily walks, the two banter and become friends, and Alessandro quickly learns more about this forgotten poet as the old man’s memory drifts. After learning a secret from Giorgio’s past, Alessandro and his friends work to uncover the mystery of this tale, an unexpected history lesson and a touching coming-of-age adventure.

Everything You Want

2017

August Vacation poster
6.8

Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.

August Vacation

1996

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo poster
5.4

Four stories about football.

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo

2006

Anche se è amore non si vede poster
6.3

Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to Turin, and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a double-decker bus, and Salvo always tries to approach the pretty girls.

Anche se è amore non si vede

2011

Living It Up poster
6.4

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

Living It Up

1994

7 and 8 poster
6.8

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.

7 and 8

2007

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