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...movie gets a charge from the high-voltage presence of Giancarlo Giannini, Director Lina Wertmuller's favorite actor (Seven Beauties; Swept Away). Here, with rambunctious energy, Giannini assumes roles in eight separate vignettes, playing everything from a lawyer hung up on dowagers to a simple, wistful yokel who unknowingly ar ranges an assignation with a transvestite. His partner in most of these episodes is a young Italian actress, Laura Antonelli, who, in a more innocent time, might have been called a lollapalooza. Antonelli has the face of a ravished angel, the shape of legend...
...Giannini still studies his parts in the same dogged way he used to crack his engineering books. "Details, details, details," he laments. "Perfection. I go too far." For Mimi, he spent weeks in Sicily armed with tape recorders and cameras, studying local speech and mannerisms. "Once I've formed an idea of a character," Giannini reports, "I confront him from the outside. I start with the spinal cord, which is basic to his carriage, his entire nervous system. I must decide how he stands and carries himself in the world. Next, his arms-how does he reveal himself through...
...fulfillment of concealment: an actor's safest place. Giannini knows this well, confesses that he is "most alive standing in front of the camera, hearing the film whirring through its mechanisms." In between movies he goes off on solitary searches for some other kind of fulfillment. His eight-year marriage to Actress Livia Giampaolo raises as many doubts as it solves problems; his two young sons are a puzzlement as well as a joy. He has tried to paint, and had a one-man show of his abstracts in Milan that was successful. "Giancarlo," says Job, "has tried painting...
...Great Prince. Currently, Giannini can also be cast down about work just completed (the starring role in the new Luchino Visconti film) and jobs offered, including several from Hollywood that tempt him because "my nature is to court glory or invite disaster...
While Wertmuller wrestles with contract offers-including a three-picture deal with Warner Bros.-Giannini broods about "the instinct to reject anyone who is successful-true even for those who happen to love me very much...