Word: ponticelli
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...concrete level, the plot introduces Mauro Ponticelli (Michael Piccoli), and his sister Marta (Anouk Aimee). The former is a magistrate, the latter a lunatic. At first the separation is quite clear. Save for the disturbances created by his sister. Ponticelli is almost fanatically calm, all that a middle-aged magistrate should be. Aimee's Marta, by contrast, seems in each well-groomed motion to bristle with exposed nerve-endings...
...director leads Mauro through surreal landscapes to emphasize the psychological confusion--buildings, yards, and even acquaintances are presented in a manner so stylized that mere vestiges of reality remain. It drifts further: Battalions of ghost-like children in night-gowns prance beneath the ancestral portraits of the venerable Ponticelli apartment. A frosty window frames a child, wild-eyed, endlessly hammering discords out of a tinny piano...
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