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Even by Italian standards, the intensity tends to get out of hand, particularly in the otherwise compelling performance of Giancarlo Giannini as the son. Scarcely a ciao can be spoken without a soulful stare, a strangled sob or an eloquently twitching nose. The cool restraint of Catherine Deneuve, which on other occasions can seem maddeningly vacuous, here supplies a welcome relief. She is a fetching brunette in this film. Playing Giannini's sister, she floats through all the gnashing and weeping with a fragile and captivating serenity...
...story, which is based on a historical incident, turns on a double irony. Giannini is driven not by evil but by a warped nobility. In plotting the murder of Deneuve's cruel and boorish husband, he enmeshes his idealistic, freethinking family in an elaborate, tawdry scandal In turn, the forces of Catholic conservatism in Bologna, especially the police and press, are impelled by hysterical fear and hatred of socialism to pillory the entire family. As the old scientist (Fernando Key) muses bitterly: "A man who kills an other man commits a reprehensible act. But a society that kills...
When in Rome..., but when in San Francisco, improvise. At least that was what Italian Director Lina Wertmuller did on the set of A Night Full of Rain. While shooting a scene with Actor Gianearlo Giannini atop a 52-story skyscraper, Lina decided that the Bank of America building simply wasn't high enough. "I had to stand on top of an 18-ft. tower she had built on top of it," complains Giancarlo, who starred in Seven Beauties, Swept Away and three other Wertmuller movies. "That's typical of Lina, to alter everything she finds, even...
...like working for Napoleon. She's a great general," says Actress Candice Bergen of her latest director, Lino Wertmuller. Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini are in Rome filming A Night Full of Rain, Wertmuller's first movie in English. To make it, Wertmuller says, is like "flying blind." Giannini spent six months studying the language for his part as an English-speaking Italian journalist. As for Bergen, cast as a former American college radical who falls in love with Giancarlo, she has different language problems. "At this point, my English is beginning to break up," she says. "I find...
SEVEN BEAUTIES. A born survivor's natural talents are put to the ultimate test by World War II in Lina Wertmuller's hard-charging, shrilly-pitched black comedy. Giancarlo Giannini is sulphurously splendid as the small-time crook who finds the great world as much a slum as the Naples back streets where he was born. His energy-and the director's-propel one compulsively through the movie's several stomach-churning moments...