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...parallel lines. The film's structure emphasizes the interconnections between layers rather than their contribution to an overall theme. The politicial layer lies nearest the surface, but it is little more than a hand-puppet to the film's sexual politics. It is oddly believable when Vittorio's aide Carlo, caught in the arms of a Countess by his lover, warns her that if she too wants to make it she must behave more coyly...
...film progresses, Vittorio's political ambitions are pushed aside by the bedroom maneuvering of both Carlo and his secretary-mistress, hoping to become members of the aristocracy through forced marriages. In the end, Vittorio and his sister are trapped by their concern for reputation. Vittorio's social idealism is blindly sacrificed to aristocratic values...
...mistakenly delivered to her address, is brilliantly performed: she has assimilated the character so well that her dialogue does not exist as lines, a guile-lessness making at once for high comedy and fine acting. Llody Schwartz's Kolenkhov is a natural scene-stealer. He pronounces "The Monte Carlo Ballet" with just the right Bela Lugosi intonation, he talks and gestures like a proud Rasputin fallen on bad times, and his Romanov leer is so hilariously Russian that one can smell the caviar in the pit. George Mager's classic internal revenue agent scene is a stunning shtic planted...
...month's vacation from the attentions of Rome's paparazzi went Sophia Loren, 35, with her husband, Italian Film Producer Carlo Ponti, and their 18-month-old son Cheepy (C.P. Jr.). On the well-guarded Adriatic island of Yugoslavia's President Tito, a longtime Loren friend, photographers will be no problem-though Cheepy's language may cause some international complications. Since his father speaks to him only in Italian, his mother in English and his nursemaid in German, the youngest Ponti communicates in a linguistic potpourri ("Morgen acqua okay" -'This morning the water is fine...
...hermaphrodite since 1936 because he cannot pay the fees -roughly $1,500-for the required medical examinations. Even with money, the process is by no means easy. Only an average 325 annulments are granted annually by Italian tribunals. Film Director Michelangelo Antonioni waited eight years for a decree. Producer Carlo Ponti gave up and became a French citizen to marry Sophia Loren...