Word: mastroiannis
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...aging, disreputable and thoroughly disagreeable architect is done in, bludgeoned to death with a stone phallus. Almost everyone questioned by Inspector Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni) has a fair disposition for murder and a shaky alibi. Nobody liked the recently deceased much, but snobbism is an unpersuasive reason for murder. The inspector, then, must search out not only a culprit but a motive...
...does not know whodunit and one does not care either. The movie, steadfastly hare brained, has an unreasonably attractive cast: Jacqueline Bisset, elegant and wry as a bored member of Turin high society; Jean-Louis Trintignant, absorbed and enigmatic all the way through the part of a bisexual aristocrat. Mastroianni continues to be as relaxed as a sleep walker, as unruffled as a cat on the prowl. His shrugs are funnier than the dialogue he is given, and he employs them defensively, to good effect...
...movie theaters round the country the most talked-about new film is Todo Modo (In Every Way), a surrealistic thriller built around a savage portrayal of the Christian Democratic leadership, including Aldo Moro, the country's Premier. In one scene, Marcello Mastroianni, playing a satanic priest, conducts a doom-laden spiritual retreat for the Christian Democratic chiefs, and snarls at them: "After 30 years in power, how much longer do you really think you have? You are all dead, can't you understand? Dead...
Bemused Talents. Besides the quite ravishing Miss Fabian, the movie can boast the presence of Marcello Mastroianni as Nicholas. He is not seen in major movies as widely as he used to be, so Salut I'Artiste is, if nothing else, a wholly welcome reminder of just how extraordinary an actor he can be. It would seem folly to cast Mastroianni as a nonentity were it not for his wonderfully bemused talents for self-effacement. Many of his best performances (8½, say, or The Organizer) have challenged and contradicted the popular notion of him as a kind...
...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...