Lucia Bosè morta di Coronavirus

Luis Buñuel: Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956): Georges Marchal and Lucia Bosè.

Michelangelo Antonioni: Cronaca di un amore (1950), co-written by Francesco Maselli, starring Lucia Bosè.

Giuseppe De Santis: Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi (1950) starring Lucia Bosè.

Luciano Emmer: Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna (1952): Lucia Bosè, Liliana Bonfatti and Cosetta Greco.

Juan Antonio Bardem: Muerte de un ciclista (1955) with Lucia Bosè.

Francesco Maselli: Gli sbandati (1955) with Lucia Bosè.

Discovered by Luchino Visconti while she was still a teenage saleslady at the Pasticcheria Galli in Milan in 1947, Lucia Bosè (1931–2020) soon emerged as a uniquely soulful presence in the cinema: in the militant branch of Neorealism (Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi and Roma ore 11 by Giuseppe De Santis), as the first and original incarnation of the alienation of the modern woman in the oeuvre of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cronaca di un amore and La signora senza camelie), in a sunnier variant of new Italian cinema (Luciano Emmer's Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna) and in a key settling of accounts of the war years (Franceso Maselli's Gli sbandati). She branched out in the Spanish direction in an unforgettable leading role in Juan Antonio Bardem's Muerte de un ciclista and a noble militant part in Luis Buñuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore. She moved to Spain and took a break in her career to raise her children, Miguel Bosè, Lucía Dominguín and Paolo Dominguín, with her husband, the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway were friends of the family. Visconti was Miguel's godfather while Picasso was the godfather to Paolo. Lucia Bosè died at the General Hospital of Segovia on 23 March 2020 from pneumonia complicated by COVID-19 during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Spain.