Word: melato
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warned. "She's like 25 men," says her frequent leading lady, Mariangela Melato. "I've never seen so monstrous a vitality. When you work with Lina, you can forget you have personal problems, emotional states, responsibilities. You dedicate yourself entirely...
...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...
...deals out; certainly the sequences of Raffaella's subjugation are among the most strident and unpleasant in recent mem ory. It is discomfiting, especially in a movie made by a woman, to see the ma jor female character turned into such an abject creature. The fact that Actors Melato and Giannini, who starred together as well in Love and Anarchy and The Seduction of Mimi, are so wonderfully skillful only tips the movie's emotional imbalance further. They bring an awk ward poignancy, a true but misplaced tenderness to Wertmuller's ruthless and unruly romance...
...depersonalization and psychosis, and Volonte is eminently capable of covering the range in between. His Lulu is a creature of blind dedication with the best production record in the factory. No matter that he comes home too bushed to enjoy the amorous invitations of his mistress (the wonderful Mariangela Melato); no matter that his energy and commitment make his fellow workers look bad: Lulu slaves away like a man possessed...
...highest level of the French government, whose ministers and bureaucrats are as blandly indifferent to humane concerns as the anarchists. There are some good performances by Fabio Testi as the most frantic of this Gallic wild bunch, Maurice Garrel as its weariest old soldier and by Mariangela Melato as its only feminist. As usual, Chabrol directs with admirable technical dexterity...