"In June 1977, Roberto Rossellini died suddenly of a heart attack, home in Rome, less than a week after serving as jury president of the Cannes film festival. The director's daughter Isabella the fourth of his seven children was then in her mid 20s. She remembers her mother, Ingrid Bergman, saying: Dad left us quickly, just as quickly as he drove his Ferrari."
"Such candour feels all the more surprising given the harrowing intrusions into their personal lives that her family have endured and the new film underlines. When my parents got together, they were married to other people and so that created a very big scandal, says Isabella, on a video call from Long Island, New York. My mum was a Hollywood star but not an American citizen, and she was not allowed back to America."
Roberto Rossellini died suddenly in June 1977, shortly after serving as jury president at Cannes. Living Without a Script chronicles his last two decades and underscores his stature as a key figure of postwar Italian neorealism while revealing activities beyond filmmaking. Rossellini pursued racing, biology, physics and early television experimentation. His relationship with Ingrid Bergman produced a major mid-20th-century scandal, public shaming and Bergman's temporary exile from the United States. Isabella Rossellini recalls family intrusions with forthright candour and conveys how personal controversy shaped their lives alongside his artistic legacy.
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