Franco

Photography by
Fedya Ili

Believe it or not 25-year-old Franco Bertolucci of Buenos Aires, Argentina is indeed related to those Bertoluccis. Film director Bernardo is his great uncle. He seems to share his famous great uncle’s playful fetishization of food. Who can forget that utterly buttery sodomy scene from Last Tango in Paris?

The Bertolucci dynasty has a creative streak for sure — his great grandfather was a poet and close friend of Pasolini — and Franco is no exception. He acts, he sings, writes theater plays and songs. This month he’s busy working on his first pop song, Cucurucho, which means ice cream cone. Something else to stick in his mouth…

Published on 01 March 2013