Word: nastassia
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...station by family ambition, is ruined by a rascally wastrel and then misunderstood by the prig to whom she gives her heart. Everyone the director sets to moving through Wessex clumps along very slowly, weighed down by the invisible chains of Hardy's famous Fate. His leading lady, Nastassia Kinski, a truly beautiful young woman (see last year's Stay As You Are), is further burdened by her attempt to speak with an authentic West Country accent. She does all right considering that she is German, but the effort seems to slow her speech. Or maybe...
...nowadays all the old reliable problems - differences of years, background and religion, for example - are carelessly surmounted all the time by lovers. So the search for something to deter, for a few reels, a middleaged, middle-class Marcello Mastroianni from turning his one-night stand with Nastassia Kinski, a spunky student, into a full-scale affair has led the creators of this film to bedrock taboo: the possibility of incest...