Word: rossellini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General della Rovere (Zebra-Gaumont; Continental) is a quickie that almost became a masterpiece. Shot, cut and canned in 33 days of cost-trimming, brain-fagging labor, it is by all odds the best picture made by Italy's Roberto Rossellini since Open City (1945) and Paisan (1946). It restores Rossellini, after eleven years of private enterprise (Ingrid Bergman, Sonali das Gupta) and artistic calamity (Stromboli, A Trip to Italy, Europe '51), to his rightful but qualified eminence as a cinema natural who shoots movies the way other men shoot dice-when he's cold he just...
...Italy's The Adventure embarrassed some spectators after sensuous Monica Vitti had rolled in unmown hay with her leading man. It left them spellbound when the fellow enjoyed a tart on a hotel divan while Mistress Monica twitched with loneliness in her bed upstairs. Roberto Rossellini and the professional cinema crowd hailed the film as "masterful" and "ten years ahead of its time...
Died. Gino Sotis, 57, Italy's famed divorce-hating divorce lawyer, whose clients included Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, the Shah of Iran's ex-wife Fawzia, Barbara Hutton, and Mussolini's last mistress, Claretta Petacci; of a heart attack; in Rome...