Body and soul. The films and photos of Jerry Schatzberg

The Alba International Film Festival and the National Cinema Museum pay tribute to the American director Jerry Schatzberg with a photographic exhibit and a complete retrospective.
The photographic exhibit dedicated to the director of the new Hollywood of the 1970s presents thirty large-format photos along the outside railings of the Mole Antonelliana, the home of the National Cinema Museum. The photos were taken by Jerry Schatzberg and other protagonists of American cinema like Jane Fonda, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola, Natalie Wood and Al Pacino.
Schatzberg’s films concentrated primarily on social reality, showing the conflicts in personal relationships, with difficult situations that were part of life in his America but were paradoxically also a mirror of the malaise of the entire world. A contemporary of Coppola and Scorsese, Schatzberg always remained on the fringe of major film productions because of his refusal to compromise with the American star system. He held true to his idea of independent cinema, as the themes of his films demonstrate.