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...volcanoes," says Giancarlo Giannini, star of Seven Beauties (TIME, Jan. 26). "In terms of my work, she is the woman of my life. We are the same. Indefatigable. Slightly crazy. We exist for each other." Director Lina...
Wertmuller's work is audacious, abrasive, full of wild, coarse humor and high feeling. Unlike Bertolucci she is not a cinematic visionary. Her roots are more traditional. In Love and Anarchy, Wertmuller considered the short-fused political passion of a peasant (played by Giannini) who had come to Rome to assassinate Mussolini. In The Seduction of Mimi, she observed how a laborer (Giannini again) allowed his socialist politics to be bought off by employers and mobsters. Swept Away concerned a helplessly aggressive sailor (yes, Giannini) shipwrecked on a desert island with a wealthy woman (Melato...
...recent films except All Screwed Up have been made with Giancarlo Giannini. His presence galvanizes her movies. His racked, searching eyes haunt them. "Those eyes are extraordinary," Wertmuller told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos. "They seem to contain an independent life force-as if they could scream, curse, plead, argue and make love." Giannini, like Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni before him, fulfills the perennial audience yearning for a romantic image and the abiding need for an adroit actor of humor and mercurial sensibility...
Beautiful Dialogue. For Wertmuller, however, Giannini is not just a star. He is a collaborator and confidant...
Then Wertmuller sits down at the typewriter and, she says, "writes so fast -rrrrrrr-that I sound like Gene Krupa." According to Giannini, the scripts that result have the heft of a telephone book. And there are two of them...