ABSTRACT
Actor and director Rubini began his artistic career acting and directing for the stage. He also appeared in movies, his first big starring role being in Federico Fellini’s Intervista (Interview) (1987). He acted in several generational films such as Giuseppe Piccioni’s Il grande Blek (The Great Blek) (1987) and Chiedi la luna (Ask for the Moon) (1991) and, more importantly, in Giuseppe Tornatore’s extraordinary existential thriller, Una pura formalità (A Mere Formality) (1994). Rubini made his impressive directorial debut in 1990 with La stazione (The Station). Although a close adaptation of a play by Umberto Marino with the same title, La stazione was far from just ‘filmed theatre’, and the film’s greatest originality is in fact its investigation of original avenues for a reciprocal contamination of filmic and theatrical discursive strategies. Among his later films are La bionda (The Blonde Woman) (1992), Prestazione straordinaria (Extraordinary Service) (1994) and Il viaggio della sposa (The Journey of the Bride) (1997).
