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...breasts. Father rushes to the rescue, steps innocently into a maison de tolérance to make a phone call, gets caught in a raid, winds up with his name on the front page (LAWYER NABBED WITH UNDERWORLD QUEEN) and his daughter disgraced in the eyes of her French fiancé's family...
...film is scarcely enough to establish a reputation, but in Olmi's case there is more than one film to go on. He made 40 documentaries before Trumpets; many of them are excellent. And his second feature film (The Fiancés), shown at the New York Film Festival, proved to be a masterly examination of an old Italian tradition: the long engagement. In both full-length pictures, Olmi's art is clearly the art of a fine documentarist, an art that tries to be more like life than life itself. He is a social realist without...
...Fiancés, the second movie made by a 32-year-old Italian named Ermanno Olmi, will probably become a cinema classic. Director Olmi tells an almost too simple story of how absence makes two hearts grow fonder, but he tells it with total mastery of his means...
...grand ball in Palermo, Tancredi's fiancée is introduced to Sicilian society. As the Prince waltzes with her, he smiles wistfully. He has done his duty, he has built a bridge to the future. His children will cross it, he will not. He will stay in the past, bound there by affection, by habit, by sloth, by congenital dislike of tomorrow, by the siren lure of a torrid, torpid land that makes its children long "voluptuously for death." As the film ends he kneels and, yearning upward to the morning star, prays passionately for death: "O faithful...
...ordered to join the team's Hawaiian farm club. Clearly skeptical about his chance to contribute to the delinquency of the Minors, Bo declared, "I'm not gonna go." When the L.A. management cut off his $15,000 salary, Bo was literally disengaged-except to his fiancée, a grand-slam blonde known around Hollywood as Mamie Van Doren, 30. What next? "Well, there are a few movies coming up," says the handsome moundsman, "and what the hell, everybody is doing a nightclub act." Adds Mamie: "Bo has a heck of a good voice. I know, because...