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...young Italian girl (Olimpia Carlisi), having just emigrated to Switzer land, finds a job waiting on tables in a railroad cafe. Adriana has a quiet single-mindedness that could be mistaken for stubbornness. She also has a distinct pride in herself, a trust in her own heart, that makes her seem both vulnerable and accessible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sexual Politics | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...town that some of the local burghers choose him for a local political post. Paul has the sort of model anonymity that in politics can pass for an identity. As he starts to run for of fice, making the rounds of small political interest groups, he also runs into Adriana. He is drawn to her immediately, and his equilibrium becomes a poor and tenuous thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sexual Politics | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

Aloof and Sexy. Alain Tanner, a Swiss film maker (La Salamandre), is especially smart in his portrait of the affair between Adriana and Paul, a romance that teaches truths only the woman is prepared to accept. Tanner seduces his audience, just as Paul is seduced, with the heat and affection of the affair. The Middle of the World is both aloof and sexy, qualities Tanner employs to characterize the romance and, finally, to limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sexual Politics | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...relationship between Adriana and Paul seems so alive that at first the deadening quality of it is not apparent. Paul has been careful and loving with Adriana, even runs the risk of losing the election. But really he has been sparing himself from some final commitment to Adriana by regarding her, however lovingly, as just a bedmate. When Adriana finally recognizes this and acts on it, Paul is baffled, and we are startled. With Paul, we have been beguiled by the very qualities that Adriana, intuitively, has started to out grow. In the end she moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sexual Politics | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...engaging bachelor with a string of love affairs behind him (one with Actress Adriana Asti, who played the lead in his first two films), Bertolucci loves to prowl through art galleries, and has stuffed his small flat in a Rome apartment hotel with records and books. "Literature was the past that I had to overcome and contradict with something," Bertolucci has said, "and that something was the cinema. If I had to talk about authors who formed me, I would say Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Chandler and Hammett." Another, even more perceptible influence might be Freud. Bertolucci went into psychoanalysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bertolucci: Choreographer for the Movie Camera | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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