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...movie, which is divertingly diabolical, is the work of Pietro Germi, who once again (as in Divorce, Italian Style) makes social slapstick out of Italian law. Hoffman appears as a shy bank clerk whose beautiful wife (Stefania Sandrelli) floods him with killing affection. She is an embarrassment at the table, where she delights in sucking fish heads, and in bed, where she screams like an air-raid siren during orgasm. Months of this kind of married life, plus a hysterical pregnancy and intrusive in-laws, are enough to drive Hoffman into the arms of another woman (Carla Gravina). Hoffman...
...Fascists dispatch him to France to kill one of his former college professors, and he combines the assignment with a honeymoon trip for his addled bride (Stefania Sandrelli). The meeting with his instructor and an intense assignation with the professor's wife (Dominique Sanda), reinforce his cynicism but weak en his homicidal resolve. The killing must be carried out by others while Marcello huddles in the back seat of a car, staring blankly at the slaughter...
...literally a labor of love: he adores all three of his families and is scrupulously fair to each. Giulia (Renee Longarini) is his legal wife; Adela (Maria Grazia Carmassi), a onetime opera singer, became his mistress when he began to console her for her cracking voice; and Marisa (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young country girl who fell in love with him at a concert and followed him to Rome. Each of them gets nine phone calls a day from him-a staggering consumption of time and small change...
...page from the professor's miniature volume of poems by Leopardi, the professor watches a classic poem burn, then resignedly selects for his own smoke "a minor work." Both men understate their roles in virtuoso style, whether locked in ideological combat or coping with a nubile vagrant (Stefania Sandrelli) who tramps the countryside like a one-girl emporium-stealing clothes, swapping souvenirs, and cheekily symbolizing the instinct for survival that thrives in all political climates...
Born. To Stefania Sandrelli, 20, sylphlike innocent angel of Seduced and Abandoned; and a lover whom she refuses to identify: a daughter; in Lausanne, Switzerland last October...