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Giancarlo Giannini plays an ignorant, country peasant (Tunin) so fearful of death he scarcely utters a complete sentence or moves a facial muscle throughout the movie. Tunin is bent on assassinating Mussolini to avenge the death of a friend by Fascist henchmen. He sells his cow and goes off to learn from the anarchist Brighenti gang how to shoot a pistol. Waiting for the dictator's appearance at a public rally, he hides out in one of Rome's highclass bordellos, only to be thwarted when two whores fall in love with him and fail to wake...
...film about an ill-fated assassination attempt against Mussolini, is playing this week at the Allston Cinema on Harvard Ave. The film is extraordinarily, good on all counts, and it manages to be uplifting and heart-wrenching all at once. The would-be assassin, played wonderfully by Giancarlo Giannini, is a not too politically astute anarchist who takes on his task after seeing a friend of his murdered by the Fascists. While waiting to take his shot, he is cared for in a bordello where the film's best scenes take place. Wertmuller's movie works both as human drama...
Standing right at the storm center, and pulled in all directions, is a worker named Carmelo, called "Mimi," who incurs the wrath of the local Mafia honcho by declining to vote in the prescribed manner. Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini) leaves his indifferent wife at home and moves north to Turin. There he lands a job in a metallurgy plant, a position in the trade union and the love of a ravishing bohemian called Fiore (Mariangela Melato...
...Giannini and Melato, who also starred in Love and Anarchy, are once again fine here, but their characterizations suffer from the deletion of nearly 20 minutes of running time, eliminated by the American distributors in an attempt to make proceedings a little breezier. The movie is somewhat puzzling in some of its transitions, more than a little abrupt in Mimi's abandoning his principles-and the reflection they find in his love for Fiore. However, no serious damage results from the condensation...
Lackey expressed great hopes for players Carla Giannini who "learned her basketball on the playgrounds of New York City" and for Chery1 Gelzer, "a center with outstanding potential to dominate the game...