María Luisa Bemberg
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María Luisa Bemberg
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14 April 1922 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 7 May 1995 (aged 73) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Film director Screenwriter |
María Luisa Bemberg (April 14, 1922 – May 7, 1995) was an Argentine film writer, director and actress, one of the first Latin American women film directors with a powerful presence in the intellectual Argentina of 1970-1990. In her work, she specialized in portraying famous South American women and the Argentine upper class. Bemberg also focused on feminism, with regard to the gender debate and cinematic gaze. Bemberg is arguably Latin America's foremost female director.
The daughter of Otto Eduardo Bemberg and Sofía Bengolea, she was born into one of the most powerful families in Argentina, as her great-grandfather, German Argentine immigrant Otto Bemberg, had founded the Quilmes Brewery, the country's largest, in 1888. Bemberg grew up in a patrician family.
Bemberg never received a high school diploma or a college degree. She was privately tutored by a governess.
On October 17, 1945, she married Carlos Miguens, an architect. Following their marriage and in the midst of the Juan Perón era, the couple moved to Spain, where they had four children before returning to Argentina. One of them, Carlos Miguens Bemberg, would become a well-known businessman.
10 years later she divorced Miguens. Her partner in subsequent years was film producer Oscar Kramer.
In 1949, Bemberg became involved with the former Smart Theater and afterwards with the Astral Theater. In 1959, she established and managed Buenos Aires's Teatro Del Globo with her associate, Catalina Wolff.
She was one of the founders of the Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Feminist Union in Argentina. Her original efforts to form feminist groups were muffled by the military regime that superseded Perón in the mid-50s.
Bemberg was inspired by French novelist and art theorist André Malraux, who visited her aunt's Villa Ocampo in 1959, and particularly his belief that "one must live what one believes".
In 1970, she wrote the script for Raúl de la Torre's Crónica de una señora, a successful film on the Argentine upper class with Graciela Borges and Lautaro Murúa, and in 1975 the script for Fernando Ayala's Triangle of Four. After her film Señora de nadie was censored by the military regime, she went to New York to study acting from Lee Strasberg. Bemberg used that time to understand how to approach a film from an actor's perspective.
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