Luca Guadagnino | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

Highest Rated: 95% April (2024)

Lowest Rated: 48% Beckett (2021)

Birthday: Aug 10, 1971

Birthplace: Palermo, Italy

A prolific director of features, short films, documentaries and advertising spots in his native Italy, Luca Guadagnino reveled in complex emotional entanglements and sumptuous visuals in features like "I Am Love" (2009) and "A Bigger Splash" (2015). Born to Italian and Algerian parents in Palermo, Italy in 1971, Guadagnino spent six years in Ethiopia until returning to his family to Italy. He studied film history and criticism at the Sapienza University of Rome, and worked briefly as a critic before trying his hand at directing. Guadagnino began producing and directing short films in the late '90s, earning critical praise for the experimental feature "The Protagonists" (1999), with Tilda Swinton as a film director who travels with her Italian crew to London to investigate a murder case. Swinton would collaborate with Guadagnino on several subsequent projects, including the documentary interview "Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory" (2002) and the Oscar-nominated "I Am Love" (2009), with the British actress as the unfaithful wife of an Italian textile manufacturer (Flavio Parenti). In addition to these efforts, he also helmed numerous documentaries ("Mundo civilizado," (2003) and features like the Italian box office hit "Melissa P." (2005), about a teenaged girl's sexual misadventures. He also directed numerous short films and promotional material for fashion lines like Fendi and Ferragamo, produced short films for other filmmakers, like the award-winning "Diarchy" (2010) for director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, and even directed a production of the opera "Falstaff" for the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Italy in 2011. Feature films, however, remained his most impressive showcase, as evidenced by the critical acclaim for his 2015 film "A Bigger Splash," which refashioned the 1969 French drama "La Piscine" as an erotic psychological drama with Swinton as a rock star whose vacation on a remote Italian island is interrupted by the arrival of her former lover (Ralph Fiennes) and his daughter (Dakota Johnson). "Bigger Splash" was nominated for a Golden Lion and won two awards at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, including Best Innovative Budget Award, and led to a slew of future film projects. One of these was his commercial breakthrough film, the romance "Call Me By Your Name" (2017), which garnered strong reviews and made an overnight star of its leading man, Timothee Chalamet. Guadignano followed that up with a stylish 2018 remake of Italian director Dario Argento's unnerving horror film "Suspiria" (1977) , which reunited him with Dakota Johnson.

Highest rated movies

95% April Watchlist 94% 86% Call Me by Your Name Watchlist 89% 58% A Bigger Splash Watchlist 88% 73% Challengers Watchlist 82% 62% Bones and All Watchlist 81% 68% I Am Love Watchlist 78% Queer Watchlist 76% 71% Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams Watchlist 67% Enea Watchlist 65% 72% Suspiria Watchlist

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Luca Guadagnino Luca Guadagnino at arrivals for SUSPIRIA Premiere, ArcLight Hollywood Cinerama Dome, Los Angeles, CA October 24, 2018. Photo By: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection A BIGGER SPLASH, director Luca Guadagnino, on set, 2015. ph: Jack English/TM and Copyright ©Fox Searchlight A BIGGER SPLASH, director Luca Guadagnino, 2015. TM and © copyright Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved. A BIGGER SPLASH, L-R: DIRECTOR LUCA GUADAGNINO, DAKOTA JOHNSON, 2015. PH: JACK ENGLISH/TM AND COPYRIGHT ©FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. A BIGGER SPLASH, L-R: TILDA SWINTON, DIRECTOR LUCA GUADAGNINO, 2015. PH: JACK ENGLISH/TM AND COPYRIGHT ©FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. A BIGGER SPLASH, director Luca Guadagnino (sitting), Tilda Swinton (scarf), on set, 2015. TM and © copyright Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved. SUSPIRIA, FROM LEFT: INGRID CAVEN, DIRECTOR LUCA GUADAGNINO ON SET, 2018. PH: SANDRO KOPP/© AMAZON STUDIOS SUSPIRIA, DIRECTOR LUCA GUADAGNINO ON SET, 2018. PH: SANDRO KOPP/© AMAZON STUDIOS CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, FROM LEFT: TIMOTHEE CHALAMET, DIRECTOR LUCA GUADAGNINO, ARMIE HAMMER, ON SET, 2017. PH: PETER SPEARS/© SONY PICTURES CLASSICS View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
88% 73% Challengers Director,
Producer
$50.1M 2024
95% No Score Yet April Producer - 2024
78% No Score Yet Queer Director,
Producer
- 2024
67% No Score Yet Enea Producer - 2023
82% 62% Bones and All Director,
Producer
$7.8M 2022
48% 33% Beckett Producer - 2021
76% 71% Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams Director $65.5K 2020
No Score Yet 43% The Staggering Girl Director,
Producer
- 2019
65% 72% Suspiria Director,
Producer
$2.5M 2018
94% 86% Call Me by Your Name Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$18.0M 2017
89% 58% A Bigger Splash Director,
Producer
$2.0M 2015
No Score Yet 22% The Landlords Producer - 2012
81% 68% I Am Love Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$5.0M 2009
No Score Yet 31% Melissa P. Director - 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Protagonists Director,
Writer
- 1999

TV

Credit
90% 75% We Are Who We Are Executive Producer,
Director,
Writer
2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call With Carson Daly Guest 2018
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