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After she had done bit parts in about ten pictures, a producer at Rome's Titanus films rechanged her name to Loren...
Girl with a Suitcase (Titanus; Ellis Films) is the latest hot dish from Italy: Claudia Cardinale. Billboarded all over Europe as the sexcessor to MM and BB, CC is an RR employee's daughter who at 22 has won pp. of publicity but shows scarcely a cc. of talent. However, her other dimensions (37-23-37) are more impressive, and she has the sort of soft wide sulky mouth that champagne glasses were designed...
Rocco and His Brothers (Titanus-Films Marceau; Astor) is an interminable, sprawling, jerkily cut and overpraised melodrama (winner of 22 awards including the Venice Film Festival top prize for 1960) about the troubles of a peasant mother and her five sons who migrate to Milan from a farming village in southern Italy. Its director is Luchino Visconti, a film-struck Roman aristocrat currently revered as one of the triumvirate-along with Federico Fellini (La Strada, La Dolce Vita) and Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)-which has brought Italian film making out of its mid-fifties doldrums...
Violent Summer (Titanus; Film-Around-the-World) is, according to Italian Director Valerio Zurlin,. "an old-wave picture in its way of recalling and filtering images." Instead of empty-souled profligates or angry young lathe operators, the film shows a pair of lovers, sensitively played by Eleanora Rossi-Drago and Jean-Louis Trintignant, enjoying a little measure of happiness at an Italian seaside resort in the troubled summer...
Where the Hot Wind Blows (Titanus; Embassy). "Gigolo!" hoots a smalltime Italian racketeer (Yves Montand) when his son tries to run away with a wealthy married woman (Melina Mercouri). In shame the boy abandons her. His father then looks the woman over, approves of his son's selection and announces suavely: "You cannot go home. My room is at your disposal." Stunned, she follows him. In the room he grabs her, kisses her, slugs her, rips her dress away. "Please," she murmurs seductively, "turn out the light." Triumphant, he turns to do as she asks, turns back in horror...