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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief truth to emerge from Indifference is that Director Francesco Maselli and a random assemblage of famous players have marooned themselves in a torpid adaptation of Alberto Moravia's first novel, published in 1929. A young beauty (Claudia Cardinale) and her brother (Tomas Milian) struggle vainly to find meaning or purpose in existence. Mother (Paulette Goddard, in a series of unflattering closeups) is a faded gentlewoman whose unscrupulous lover (Rod Steiger) has entered a bid for Claudia and the family estates. Meanwhile, an aging adventuress (Shelley Winters) arduously lures young Tomas to her bed. He acquiesces at last because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ennui in Italy | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...performance that merely adds another great stone profile to his gallery of semi-classical parts. Harrison, puncturing the most pontifical utterances with a tongue sharpened for wit, climbs roughshod over his talented hirelings-among them Bramante (Harry Andrews), the architect of St. Peter's, and Raphael (Tomas Milian), who appears to be impersonating a painting, not a painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Epic Eyeful | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...Visconti) probes the boredom and despair of the very rich. A handsome young Milanese count (Thomas Milian) has created a front-page scandal by associating with $1,000-a-night call girls. He fears that the father of his German-born wife Pupe (Romy Schneider) will cut him off without funds. As husband and wife debate their dilemma and their relationship, the camera feels its way like a sybarite over the textures of the setting and the people. The props are excruciatingly chic, ranging from Aubusson tapestries and Canaletto paintings to Actress Schneider's Coco Chanel clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Every Italian a Stallion? | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

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