Word: melato
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortunately Wertmuller blossoms out when she develops the other, more superficial characters, and intersperses the dull story with irrelevant but delightfully hectic scenes at the bordello. Salome, Tunin's contact in the city (played with spirit and finesse by Mariangela Melato), is blessed with all the wit and energy he lacks. With the tough elegance and self-assurance of a top whore in a classy joint, she adds a crucial dimension of sensuality and realism. Salome's bawdy repartees offer Wertmuller just the link she needs to trigger off comic scenes. Her vivid style is distinctly reminiscent of Fellini (with...
...Mafia honcho by declining to vote in the prescribed manner. Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini) leaves his indifferent wife at home and moves north to Turin. There he lands a job in a metallurgy plant, a position in the trade union and the love of a ravishing bohemian called Fiore (Mariangela Melato...
Giannini and Melato, who also starred in Love and Anarchy, are once again fine here, but their characterizations suffer from the deletion of nearly 20 minutes of running time, eliminated by the American distributors in an attempt to make proceedings a little breezier. The movie is somewhat puzzling in some of its transitions, more than a little abrupt in Mimi's abandoning his principles-and the reflection they find in his love for Fiore. However, no serious damage results from the condensation...
...lavishly lit by Giuseppe Rotunno (cinematographer also for Fellini and Visconti), but the camera seems to move almost haphazardly, framing the characters with less care than they are acted. Besides excellent performances by Gianinni and Polito, there is a feisty characterization of a queenly whore by Mariangela Melato...