Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they seem. Camelia, 36, also plays out an Oedipal drama: when she is photographed with Egypt's President, "gossip followed that Father was involved with an attractive young woman whom he intended to marry. I thought it a huge joke." The joke was not always so funny. In this sad account, Sadat marries off his daughter when she is twelve, to a man 17 years her senior. When she later demands a divorce, her father grows glacially remote. Even when his emotionally distraught daughter attempts suicide, he sends an emissary to her bedside. Eventually, the young woman seeks fulfillment outside...
...hosing down naked men in a Trouville hospital, marries a weather forecaster who has a nervous breakdown during the wedding ceremony and returns to his ex-wife shortly afterwards. Solange (Dominique Lavanant), a flautist in a not-ready-for-prime-time orchestra, always seems to be stuck in sad love triangles or with married men and constantly worries that she will end up an old maid while her biological clock ticks away...
...going to be sad leaving them," Kelly says...
...this film lays the sauce on thick. Cheap melancholy violin strains, again a la Mama Leone's, drip over each scene, happy or sad. All things Italian are overdone like a microwaved lasagna. Wild emotional responses ooze over the stock stereotypical Italian characters we've come to be bored with over the years, such as the psychic grandmother and--could you have guessed--the mob. And the ending drags on like a meal of wet noodles. Beginning to feel indigestion...
...author of the award-winning play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" said it's important for a playwright to make all efforts to avoid autobiography, since it isn't possible to recreate a physical likeness on the stage...