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...FIANCÉ'S. From the simple tale of a long-engaged couple enduring a painful separation, Italian Director Ermanno Olmi has created a minor cinema classic...
...Fiancés, tight-lipped and unhappy, sit side by side on hard-bottom chairs and look anywhere but at each other. Engaged for several years, they have recently been drifting apart. Now he wants to run off to Sicily and take a better job. She is sure that if he goes he will never come back, and he is secretly inclined to agree...
...shown in the U.S., Italy's Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets) tells a gentle and touching story of how distance lends enchantment to a love that had lost its charm. More to the point, he tells the story with inordinate art; film buffs everywhere acknowledge The Fiancés as a classic of the new cinema...
...inhospitable place. The company hotel looks like a concrete waffle. The nearest town is huts and ruts. The local night life is limited to a single soda fountain of soul-searing fluorescence. After three weeks in this hell, the miserable welder imagines home as heaven and his fiancée (Anna Canzi) as an angel. When she sends him a letter, he greets it like an annunciation. Eagerly he replies, and soon the fiancés are writing regularly, soon a new green leaf of feeling grows from the dead branch of their love...
...very sensible answer," said L.B.J. "He's 79, and he looks 59, and he never had but one job in his life-engineer for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company." Johnson then introduced Lynda Bird's fiancé: "Ensign Bernie Rosenbach...