Word: troppo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALLEGRO NON TROPPO Directed by Bruno Bozzetto Screenplay by Bruno Bozzetto, Guide Manuli and Maurizio Nichetti...
...this-and more of a similarly sardonic, ironic nature-enlivens this animated feature from Italy. Clearly not intended for the eyes of young children, Allegro Non Troppo (fast but not too fast) aspires to do for modern audiences what Fantasia did in its day: demonstrate the state of the animator's art as it now exists and lightly suggest its many and varied possibilities as a medium for serious expression. In this regard, it is quite successful...
Bozzetto's work will be welcomed by the already converted-as it should be-but whether the skeptical will also respond to the film in sizable numbers remains, alas, problematical. Allegro Non Troppo is worth a try-what ever your lingering feelings about Porky Pig.%#151;Richard Schickel
Like many of Muriel Spark's best characters, however, Maggie keeps busy being clever. She complains that the "tempo" of her husband's lovemaking is all wrong: "He starts off adagio, adagio. Second phase, well, you might call it al legro ma non troppo and pretty nervy . . ." When she is offstage, Hubert the poseur can usually be counted on for verbal sprightliness. "What is opulence," he asks in his best Oscar Wilde manner, "but a semblance of opulence...
However, the worst offender of the night was neither Starker nor the HRO, but a Sanders Theater radiator which released a cacophonous blast of steam during the contemplative, yet simple adagio ma non troppo of the Dvorak. As the heating unit entered the final stage of its five-minute protest, Starker remarked, "Seldom have I been so rudely interrupted. Perhaps this indicates that Harvard needs a concert hall." That conclusion is indisputable, in light of the radiator interruption and the police sirens and car horns which consistently violated passages played at or below the mezzo-piano level...