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...little skull: if she wants to stay in business, she had better stay with child. Next time the carabinieri come, Sophia once more proudly points-and the next time and the next. In approximately seven years she has seven babies, but before she can make it eight her husband (Marcello Mastroianni) collapses in sexhaustion. "Goodbye," she bellows scornfully at poor Marcello as she is led away to prison. "Goodbye, you fairy...
...Mara, most amusing of the three episodes, Sophia plays a prostitute with principles. One fine day the boy next door, who is studying for the priesthood, starts to wonder what he really wants: salvation or Sophia? Sophia is amused, but she puts business (Marcello) before pleasure. A man of imagination, Marcello jumps into bed and beseeches her: "P-p-pretend you're a v-v-virgin!" Sophia prepares to comply, but just then the grandmother of the boy next door arrives. "Help!" the old lady hollers. "My grandson wants to leave holy orders and marry you!" Marcello bites...
UMBERTO MASTROIANNI-Bonino, 7 West 57th. This major Italian sculptor (an uncle of Movie Actor Marcello Mastroianni) casts planks and lumps of bronze and gives the tortured results such names as Hiroshima, Violenza, Pearl Harbor. Together, they look like a junk heap of civilization from which blooms a brute mess of skulls, limbs and deformities: machine-age fleurs du mal. Through March...
...impressionistic self-portrait by Federico Fellini, might be termed a stream-of-consciousness film. From beginning to end, the movie follows the mind of film director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni). It begins in one of his dreams; it ends with his ecstatic vision...
...Italian film adapted from a novel by Vasco Pratolini. The pace is lento, sometimes troppo lento, but the color photography tactfully subtends the mood of green and yellow melancholy, and Director Valeric Zurlini develops a very real and moving relationship between the hero (Jacques Perrin) and his older brother (Marcello Mastroianni). It is fascinating to watch Mastroianni, who in his recent films (La Dolce Vita, La Notte, 8½) has emerged as the Clark Gable of existentialism, play a simple, decent human being. He does it well...