Clare Peploe, film director who jumbled genres, dies at 79
Triumph of Love. Clare Peploe (Director, Writer).
by Neil Genzlinger
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Clare Peploe, a director and screenwriter who liked to merge genres in her own films, and who also made significant contributions to some of the movies of her husband, celebrated filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, died June 24 in Rome. She was 79.
The cause was cancer, said Alessandra Bracaglia, her assistant.
As a director, Peploe made a quick impact with her first effort, a comic short called Couples and Robbers, about newlyweds who commit a robbery, which she wrote with Ernie Eban; it was nominated for the short-subject Oscar in 1981.