Word: marcello
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...Marcello Mastroianni plays an aristocratic weakling (Franco Nero having been an aristocratic obsessive, and both being typical heroes for narrative films) confined to his opulent family mansion at the end of a dead-end street, watches people on the street through a pocket telescope. This utterly point-of-view technique separates him from the film's dramatic action and makes him a moral observer, murmuring "do it" or "no, no" as the blacks who inhabit the rest of the street perform the actions...
...alive! I tell you, he is alive!" screams Giovanna (Sophia Loren). She is a woman with the exuberant breasts and thighs of a Gaston Lachaise statue, the eyes of a Modigliani portrait; perhaps that is why no one listens to her voice. Years ago, she and a soldier, Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), were married. He was sent to the Russian front; she returned to her village. The war ended; Antonio was left behind on a frozen Russian landscape. Now there are gray spiderwebs in the luxuriant brown hair. In a dozen years Antonio has never written. Yet in Giovanna...
Almost two years ago, he suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. He was shielded from the news that Marcello Caetano had replaced him as Premier. Several times the figurehead President, Américo Thomaz, approached him with the firm intention of telling him the truth, but could never find the words. Occasionally his housekeeper of more than 40 years, Dona Maria de Jesus Caetano Freire, would try to persuade him to "resign" because of his health, but each time he would reply: "I cannot go. There is no one else." When Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal...
...been living in Rome with my sweet Marcello when my father insisted I come to Geneva for his fifth marriage (dear Father, he will ever be the child). He tempted me with tales of a dazzling young American named Gregory. So off I went to Geneva, In Search of Gregory. Outside the airport I saw a poster of an exquisite autoball champion. He was Michael Sarrazin, that soulful boy in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, so I knew that he must be Gregory. My darling brother Daniel, who still refuses to leave the villa and who still adores...
...scenario is a combination of Harold Pinter and introductory civics. Leo (Marcello Mastroianni) is the son of a deceased diplomat who arrives in London to live in his father's former residence, an opulent mansion surrounded by slums. The neighborhood teems and festers while Leo laments his own lethargy. "I can't get involved," he moans, "what can I do?" He passes most of his days pressed against an upstairs window, telescope to his eye, watching the human comedy unfold in the shops and tenement windows across the way. When he is not peeping, he is halfheartedly fighting...