Word: fabio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nada gang are working out their personal problems through political activity. The same may be said of their official pursuers up to the highest level of the French government, whose ministers and bureaucrats are as blandly indifferent to humane concerns as the anarchists. There are some good performances by Fabio Testi as the most frantic of this Gallic wild bunch, Maurice Garrel as its weariest old soldier and by Mariangela Melato as its only feminist. As usual, Chabrol directs with admirable technical dexterity...
...from the Ferrara tennis club under the new "Jewish laws." Their mood is carefree, nevertheless, and is echoed by that of their hosts, the blond ice-maiden Micol (Dominique Sanda), and her sickly brother Alberto (Helmut Berger). Among their guests are Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), a childhood friend, and Malnate (Fabio Testi), a gentile visitor from Milan. Wrinkling her nose at Malnate's Fascist predilection for the workers of Ferrara, Micol returns his appraising once-over with "you're too much the industrious Lombard--besides, you're too hairy." Next to Malnate's animality, De Sica's aristocratic Jews...