Word: troise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oscar should have left well enough alone. For, true to his convictions, his wife is in love, but with another woman (Luisa de Santis). The comic and sexual implications of this bizarre menage-a-trois are the subject of Lina Wertmuller's Sotto Sotto (Softly, Softly).
Little vegetables were big with caterers, most especially Persianettes, tiny, red, pear-shaped tomatoes that may become the garnish of the year. Veal surpassed beef as the most popular entree selection, but the old American stand-by was to appear in a few new guises. Filet mignon stuffed with lobster...
Nicole Galland (Emma) and Brad Dalton (Jerry) also turn in fine performances as the deux et trois of the menage, though they are unable to shake an inability to project the midlife angst of English Big Chillers nearing the big four-oh. Eric Rosencrantz contributes a refreshing dose of Italo...
But there is another reason to connect Watteau with impressionism: the colloquial, almost chatty strand of improvisation that purls along the surface of his art without distracting from its depths. As with Renoir, his models were his friends. He drew them incessantly, in fine-pointed chalks -a red, a white...
Likewise, the filmmakers offer up a stale love triangle between the three friends, whereby one (Hackman) is torn between a television career and a woman (Cassidy) who in the meantime is falling in love with a mutual photographer friend (Nolte). While the whole menage a trois sounds as though it...