Word: bolognini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bell' Antonio. A thoughtful but not profound discussion of impotence by Italy's Mauro Bolognini...
Bell' Antonio. A thoughtful but not profound discussion of impotence by Italy's Mauro Bolognini...
Bell' Antonio. A thoughtful but not profound discussion of impotence by Italy's Mauro Bolognini...
Bell' Antonio (Levine; Embassy), directed by Italy's Mauro Bolognini, is a serious and discreet discussion of a case of impotence. The hero (Marcello Mastroianni) lusts only for women he cannot love; the woman he loves (Claudia Cardinale) he imagines an "angel," and he cannot imagine muddying her wings with animality. When she wins an annulment he is desolate, and his family is disgraced -in Sicily, where the family lives, a man's virility and his public position are intimately interdependent. In despair, the young man turns to a servant girl, gets her with child. The honor...
...French, are fearfully somber about their soulless, hellbent young-who, if a succession of tedious new-and old-wave films are to be believed, are constantly chewing gum, listening to jazz, riding motor scooters and wearing sunglasses in every conceivable stage of degradation. Every now and then, Director Mauro Bolognini remembers that he is supposed to sermonize, and there follows a cancer-at-the-heart-of-society scene. The punks unbutton their shirts to the navel (male exposure is the latest thing in social cancer) and lounge around glaring at one another. Nothing happens, which in the end is what...