Neri Parenti

Neri Parenti

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1950-04-26 (73 years old)

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Biography

Neri Parenti (born 26 April 1950) is an Italian film director and writer. He is known for comedy films, including the series starring Paolo Villaggio playing the character Ugo Fantozzi, and a later series of cinepanettoni—zany comedy films scheduled for release during the Christmas period. After graduating in political science, he dedicated his career to filmmaking. He became a pupil and assistant of Pasquale Festa Campanile from 1972 to 1979, and also worked for Salvatore Samperi, Steno and Giorgio Capitani. In 1979 he directed his first film, The Face with Two Left Feet, an ironic and comical parody of Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta, which had been a hit two years earlier.

A year later he met the film actor and director Paolo Villaggio, who was then filming Fantozzi contro tutti. Villaggio developed an esteem for Parenti and decided to leave the director's chair to join forces with him. The result was very positive and the pair made another six films with the Fantozzi character, from Fantozzi subisce ancora (1983) to Fantozzi - Il ritorno (1996).His films feature catastrophic and noisy gags, referring back to American silent film, combined with typical situations from Italian comedy (commedia brillante) and with some authorial motifs, repeated in almost all his films, from the diptych Scuola di ladri (1986) and Scuola di ladri - Parte seconda (1987), to the famous trilogy Le comiche (1990), Le comiche 2 (1992), and Le nuove comiche (1994). His film Le comiche was the fourth-highest-grossing film in Italy in 1990. Parenti claimed in 2012 that he had been excommunicated twice for sequences in Le comiche and Le comiche 2 that he said had been considered outrageous by the Catholic Church. The spokesman of the Holy See, Federico Lombardi, and Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, who from 2003 to 2008 was secretary of the Apostolic Signatura, both promptly denied the report, saying that the director was only joking. Anyway, the director considers himself atheist.After the expiry of his contract with Villaggio in 1996, Parenti turned to directing Christmas movies, or cinepanettoni, starring Christian De Sica and Massimo Boldi. Parenti had already experimented in this kind of movie when he was still working with Villaggio; the first such film he directed was Vacanze di Natale '95 (1995). Further films he made set at Christmas time started with Merry Christmas (2001), and ended with Vacanze di Natale a Cortina (2011), which registered the third highest takings in Italy that year.In 2020, he directed comedy couple Christian De Sica and Massimo Boldi in In vacanza su Marte, after a 15-years hiatus.

He is one of the few Italian directors to have stayed within a single genre throughout his career.

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Filmography

all 61

Movies 61

Director 55

self 2

Writer 1

Director
Volevo un figlio maschio

Volevo un figlio maschio (2023)

Movie
Writer
Improvvisamente Natale

Improvvisamente Natale (2022)

Movie
Director
Holiday on Mars

Holiday on Mars (2020)

Movie
Director
Natale da chef

Natale da chef (2017)

Movie
Sé stesso
La voce di Fantozzi

La voce di Fantozzi (2017)

Movie
Director
Vacanze ai Caraibi - Il film di Natale

Vacanze ai Caraibi - Il film di Natale (2015)

Movie
Director
Ma tu di che segno 6?

Ma tu di che segno 6? (2014)

Movie
Self
C'era una volta il prossimamente

C'era una volta il prossimamente (2014)

Movie
Director
Colpi di fortuna

Colpi di fortuna (2013)

Movie
Director
Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike (2012)

Movie
Director
Vacanze di Natale a Cortina

Vacanze di Natale a Cortina (2011)

Movie
Director
My Friends: How It All Began

My Friends: How It All Began (2011)

Movie
4.78
Director
Natale in Sudafrica

Natale in Sudafrica (2010)

Movie
Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo (2010)

Movie
Screenplay / Director / Story
Natale a Beverly Hills

Natale a Beverly Hills (2009)

Movie
Director
Natale a Rio

Natale a Rio (2008)

Movie
Director
Natale in crociera

Natale in crociera (2007)

Movie
Director
Natale a New York

Natale a New York (2006)

Movie
Director
Christmas in Miami

Christmas in Miami (2005)

Movie
Screenplay / Director / Story
Christmas in Love

Christmas in Love (2004)

Movie
Director
Natale in India

Natale in India (2003)

Movie
Director
Natale sul Nilo

Natale sul Nilo (2002)

Movie
4
Director
Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas (2001)

Movie
Director
Body Guards - Guardie del corpo

Body Guards - Guardie del corpo (2000)

Movie
Director
Tifosi

Tifosi (1999)

Movie
Director
Paparazzi

Paparazzi (1998)

Movie
4
Director
Cucciolo

Cucciolo (1998)

Movie
Director
Fantozzi The Return

Fantozzi The Return (1996)

Movie
4.11
Director
Christmas Vacation '95

Christmas Vacation '95 (1995)

Movie
Director
The New Comics

The New Comics (1994)

Movie
2.33
Director
Fantozzi in Heaven

Fantozzi in Heaven (1993)

Movie
5.56
Director
Infelici e contenti

Infelici e contenti (1992)

Movie
Director
The Comics 2

The Comics 2 (1991)

Movie
3.57
Director
Fantozzi to the Rescue

Fantozzi to the Rescue (1990)

Movie
4.93
Director
The Comics

The Comics (1990)

Movie
2.5
Director
Fratelli d'Italia

Fratelli d'Italia (1989)

Movie
Director
I Won the New Year's Lottery

I Won the New Year's Lottery (1989)

Movie
1
Director
Fantozzi Retires

Fantozzi Retires (1988)

Movie
4.33
Director
My House My House...

My House My House... (1988)

Movie
Director
School of Thieves 2

School of Thieves 2 (1987)

Movie
3.5
Director
Superfantozzi

Superfantozzi (1986)

Movie
4.62
Director
School of Thieves

School of Thieves (1986)

Movie
5
Director
Who Is Afraid Of Dracula?

Who Is Afraid Of Dracula? (1985)

Movie
1
Director
Firefighters

Firefighters (1985)

Movie
1
Director
Fantozzi Still Suffers

Fantozzi Still Suffers (1983)

Movie
3.89
Director
Two of a Kind

Two of a Kind (1983)

Movie
Director
Forbidden Dreams

Forbidden Dreams (1982)

Movie
6
Director
Fracchia The Human Beast

Fracchia The Human Beast (1981)

Movie
1
Director
Fantozzi Against the Wind

Fantozzi Against the Wind (1980)

Movie
4.71
Director
John Travolto: The Face with Two Left Feet

John Travolto: The Face with Two Left Feet (1979)

Movie
First Assistant Director
Gegè Bellavita

Gegè Bellavita (1979)

Movie
Assistant Director
Hello Nì!

Hello Nì! (1979)

Movie
First Assistant Director
My Loves

My Loves (1978)

Movie
First Assistant Director
Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra

Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra (1978)

Movie
First Assistant Director
Flatfoot in Africa

Flatfoot in Africa (1978)

Movie
4.75
First Assistant Director
Sweetheart

Sweetheart (1977)

Movie
First Assistant Director
Dimmi che fai tutto per me

Dimmi che fai tutto per me (1976)

Movie
First Assistant Director
Soldier of Fortune

Soldier of Fortune (1976)

Movie
First Assistant Director
The Sex Machine

The Sex Machine (1975)

Movie
Production Secretary
Malicious

Malicious (1973)

Movie
Production Secretary
Jus primae noctis

Jus primae noctis (1972)

Movie

Ratings

Average 5.07
Based on 73.6 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
1972
1983
1994
1988
2023
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Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1950-04-26 (73 years old)

Birth Place
Florence, Italy

Citizenships
Italy


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