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...matter of taste, of course, but at a very basic level. More than anything else, Ermanno Olmi's direction reminds me of the poetry of John Dryden. I happen to like Dryden. Many do not. Throughout the movie Olmi maintains a perfect balance between the melancholy and the ridiculous. And--what is the crucial point--he makes of his small short story something greater than itself...
...Steiger, 39, has played Al Capone, as well as a thug in On the Waterfront. But a sterling personality belies that base exterior, as Italian Producer Ermanno Olmi knew, and so he cast Steiger as Pope John XXIII, in the Vatican-approved screen version of the late Pope's diary. And There Came a Man, as it will be called, is now being filmed in John's native Sotto il Monte and, says Olmi firmly, "there will be no mixing of the sacred and profane." Says Steiger, who was raised a Lutheran: "I consider this part a regeneration...
...FIANCÉS. Old love refurbished is the theme of a poignant little masterwork by Italian Director Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets...
...FIANCÉS. Italian Director Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets) turns his camera to a couple engaged so long that they scarcely remember...
...FIANCÉ'S. From the simple tale of a long-engaged couple enduring a painful separation, Italian Director Ermanno Olmi has created a minor cinema classic...