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Directed by Ettore Scola...
Screenplay by Sergio Amidei and Ettore Scola...
...skirt swishing this way and that as they pace off their anger and frustration. For the closest the observers can get is a perch on a staircase with the eyes at the level of the royal bedroom's floorboards. That is fine. In fact, for Director Scola's purposes it is the perfect finish to a masterly film, at once superbly intelligent and strangely poignant. He employed the same ironic device in A Special Day (1977), in which Mussolini held a giant rally for Hitler in the background, while Mastroianni and Sophia Loren coped with the quotidian...
...Scola rushes to a Riverside County judge, charging that Mary Kaye has kidnaped Thera. The judge gives La Scola temporary custody of the monk and his money, which, according to court records, amounts to about $417,000. The monk is moved back to the nursing home...
CHAPTER THREE. In Riverside Superior Court, at a series of custody hearings in July, Mary Kaye accuses La Scola of having used hypnotism and drugs to persuade the Theras to adopt him. She charges that he has unfeelingly left Georgia's ashes for a year in the Cadillac trunk. La Scola countercharges that Mary Kaye coerced the monk into marriage for his money...