Word: boccaccio
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...were locked in a safe each night. Only the egomathematical title itself has a concise and plausible explication: it represents the number of films Fellini has made until now-eight full-length features and two quarter-length films, the latest of which was The Temptation of Doctor Antonio from Boccaccio...
Silence & Ambivalence. The professional transition that prepared her to bat in the same boudoir with Mercouri and Moreau began with the part of the pretty young wife of the dissolute count in Luchino Visconti's segment of Boccaccio '70. But the role still had a touch of the old sentimentality in it, since Director Visconti had her cry while she was collecting money from her husband for granting him his marital consortium. Orson Welles has presumably buffed her up further as the nymphomaniac Leni in his still unreleased version of Franz Kafka's The Trial...
...does not take the reader long to realize that he is in the hands of a Brazilian Boccaccio (whose book is marred now and then by his translators' foolish fondness for gringo slang). It is no surprise, therefore, when Gabriela appears-the laughing, barefoot, round-rumped omnamorata who turns up in the bawdy literature of every language. Who is Gabriela's husband? Naturally he is fat Nacib, the saloonkeeper. Who crawls in Nacib's window when Nacib is tending bar? No one but oily Tonico, the seducer. Will Tonico succeed in getting back out when Nacib comes...
...Leopard are now bombarded by the glossy monthlies with awe-struck accounts of Visconti's baroque sense of light and composition or his deft flair for leading actors like Burt Lancaster into deep and exacting performances. On the evidence of Rocco and that turgid domestic squabble in Boccaccio 70, I wasn't convinced. White Nights, however, is a better test case: it contains all the elements hitherto claimed for Visconti's style and it shows us just how much he has to learn to match his legend...
...Boccaccio '70. An Italian anthology of amore: three episodes directed by Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...