Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EMPTY CANVAS (306 pp.)-Alberto Moravia - Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...write a novel about boredom is to invite literary disaster. But Italian Novelist Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia has taken on such challenges before, and managed to deal with such themes as poverty, fascism and dictatorship by translating all of them into a framework of sex. In The Empty Canvas, Moravia has overreached himself. He has made sex itself a bore...
Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century...
KENMORE: TWO WOMEN, a film version of Alberto Moravia's novel about a mother and daughter who flee to the mountains during the Italian campaign of World War II and return too soon to the city. Sophia Loren acts (well), DeSica directs...
KENMORE: A film version of Alberto Moravia's TWO WOMEN, which goes by the same name. A portrayal of the almost incredibly stark life of the Italian peasantry during the Second World War's Italian campaign. Sophia Loren and her film-land daughter (anonymous) leave bomb-strafed Roma only to find privation, and the sex-starved troops of three nations. Climax of the film comes in a deserted hillside church were a platoon of North African irregulars make off with daughter's virtue and mother's dignity. If "The Virgin Spring" dismayed you, stay away from this. Evenings...