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Garden of Finzi-Continis...
...self-assertive the voices of most novelists sound after listening to Giorgio Bassani tell a story. The former editor of the literary magazine Botteghe Oscure and the discoverer of Giuseppe (The Leopard) Lampedusa, Bassani is best known in the U.S. for his lambent novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis from which the recent Vittoria De Sica film was made. Like Garden, this book is set in the author's native city of Ferrara during the 1930s. Also as in Garden, the narrator of Behind the Door is a wealthy, sensitive young...
Garden of Finzi-Continis--Overrated. A very heavy and sentimental Vittorio De Sica flick about the round-up of Jews in Fascist Italy. Features the most ineiegant rich clan since Visconti's The Damned. CINEMA KENMORE SQUARE...
...directors find her aura of mystery the clue to her appeal. Vittorio De Sica, who worked with her in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, says that she must play characters who are not obvious, women who do not express what is inside. "With Dominique," he observes, "one must scrutinize, one must search out what she sincerely thinks and feels. It is all closed inside." In the moody, half-toned study of an aristocratic Jewish family in Fascist Italy, Dominique played the sheltered, unworldly daughter. In The Conformist, another brilliant film about the same era, she was the lesbian wife...
Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Exeter St. Theatre...