Clare Peploe

The director Clare Peploe was born in Tanzania in 1942, but grew up in England and Italy. She found her way into the film industry as an assistant to Antonioni on Zabriskie Point (1969) and then collaborated on Novecento (1975) with her husband, the director Bernardo Bertolucci, with whom she also worked on the script for La Luna (1979). Clare Peploe made her debut as a director with the short film, Couples and Robbers (1982), that was nominated for the Oscars and… (more)