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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Ettore Scola - La più bella serata della mia vita (1972)

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Review
by dbdumonteil

That many Ettore Scola's fans do not even know the existence of this gem is beyond me."Piu Bella Serata Della Mia Vida" has everything a movie buff demands: -A first-class screenplay,where ,at every minute,you can expect the unexpected.

-An incredibly extraordinary cast:think of it!Alberto Sordi,one of the luminaries of the brilliant Italian cinema,pit against the creme de la creme of French veterans: Pierre Brasseur,Charles Vanel and ,last but not least ,Michel Simon!A dream of a cast and Scola directs them in a masterful way.

"Piu Bella Serata" borrows elements from Agatha Christie's "And then there were none " -aka "ten little Indians" ,Claude Autant-Lara's "L'Auberge Rouge" -the endings are similar-, Julien Duvivier's "Marie -Octobre" or Robert Hossein's unfairly overlooked "Jeu de la Vérité".But all those elements,Scola makes them his very own ,and his movie has no cause to be jealous of those previous works."Piu Bella Serata" is arguably one of the finest Italian movies of the seventies.

Like Luigi Comencini's overlooked classic "Lo Scopone Scientifico " -where again Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano played opposite Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten-,this film is a fable.And you have got to pay attention to comprehend all the serious heavy things the director tells us.

These three retired magistrates want to carry on with their work:judging people is their idée fixe ,they are akin to Racine's central character in "Les Plaideurs"."We have already judged Joan of Ark,Dreyfuss and others " says Simon,but we do prefer judging people in the flesh!" The movie also deals with the skeletons in the closet:Sordi's character is not the goofy naive bon vivant he seems to be.Little by little,we discover he might be a monster (He would be one in Mario Monicelli's "I Nuovi Monstri" a brilliant film made of sketches,1978) The judges' desirable mansion in the Swiss mountains with its baroque decorations ,its hunting trophies (what a symbol) ,Janet Agren's luminous beauty (the perfect bait),add to an entrancing atmosphere.The movie runs the whole gamut: it' sometimes a hilarious comedy,sometimes a fantasy and horror gem (with accents of "the most dangerous game"), sometimes a detective story,sometimes a melodrama (Sordi's childhood).The only flaw is perhaps the last scene:it should have been briefer.This is minor quibble.

Expect the unexpected !Enjoy!

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Ettore Scola - Una Giornata Particolare AKA A Special Day (1977)

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Synopsis: The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, Loren and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life. Oscar Nominated in 1978 for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor In A Leading Role.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Ettore Scola - C'eravamo tanto amati AKA We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)

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Description:
Antonio, Gianni e Nicola hanno combattuto con i partigiani durante l'ultimo conflitto mondiale. Alla Liberazione i tre si perdono di vista. Antonio diventa portantino di Ospedale; Nicola fa il critico cinematografico fallito; Gianni sposa, senza amore, Elide, la figlia di un rozzo ed arrogante arricchito, ottenendo soldi e successo, ma anche solitudine ed infelicità. Tutti e tre, in tempi diversi, hanno una storia con Luciana, aspirante attrice. Alla fine Antonio sposerà Luciana e continuerà a lottare con lei per i propri diritti; Nicola lascerà casa e famiglia; Gianni, ormai vedovo e solo, non riuscirà a confidare agli amici, incontrati per caso, le proprie sconfitte. "Volevamo cambiare il mondo, ma il mondo ha cambiato noi!", commenta sconsolato uno dei protagonisti.

"We All Loved Each Other So Much" is the forgettably awkward title of Ettore Scola's wise, reflective Italian comedy that examines 30 years of recent Italian social history in terms of the friendship of three men and the one woman each man has loved at one time or another. It's the sort of thing for which European film makers, especially Italian, have a special feeling, while Americans have none whatsoever, if only because American producers are made uneasy by movies that are about friendship and that attempt to cover so much time.
"We All Loved Each Other So Much," which opened yesterday at the Beekman, is full of fondness, rue, outrage and high spirits. It is also—surprising for an Italian film—packed with the kind of movie references that French filmmakers like, and it is dedicated to the late Vittorio DeSica, whose "Bicycle Thief" plays a prominent part in the picture.
The three men, who have become friends as leftist partisans near the end of the Nazi occupation of Italy, are Giovanni, a lawyer (Vittorio Gassman). Antonio (Nino Manfredi), who begins his postwar career as a hospital orderly (and remains one for the rest of his life, and Nico (Stefano Satta Flores), a politically committed movie nut who doesn't hesitate to abandon his wife and child to go off to Rome after a disagreement over the merits of "The Bicycle Thief."
The woman who moves in and out of their lives is Luciana (Stefania Sandrelli), an aspiring actress, the high point of whose career (and one of the high points of the film) comes when she is cast as an extra in "La Dolce Vita." The scene that Mr. Scola recreates is the preparation for Anita Ekberg's walk through the Trevi fountain, complete with Marcello Mastrcianni actually sitting on the sidelines as Federico Fellini directs (and receives a tribute from a policeman who says, "I've always admired your films, Mr. Rossellini").
The film's principal storyline has to do with the decline and fall of the lawyer, Giovanni, into successful opportunism, a role that Mr. Gassman has played before, but which he does with immense gallantry and humor as he goes from youth to middle-age. Also extremely good are Aldo Fabrizi, as the crooked industrialist who becomes Giovanni's father-in-law, and Giovanna Ralli as the fat, bird-brained rich girl whom Giovanni marries and transforms into a chic, bored woman who comes to identify herself—fatally—with the women in Antonioni movies.
Mr. Scola, who has been represented here both as a writer ("Il Sorpasso") and director ("Made in Italy," "The Pizza Triangle," among others), employs a comic style that is effective for being loose, allowing him to introduce real people as themselves, to parody "Strange Interlude's" spoken interior thoughts, to go from slapstick to satire and then to drama of genuine feelings.
At its best, the film combines a number of different emotions at once, as when the film-obsessed Nico attempts to teach Luciana the fundamentals of Sergei Eisenstein's theory of montage on Rome's Spanish Steps, all the while seducing her.
Though the film is very funny at moments, the dominant mood is a sense of loss, but even here the film makes its point in a backhanded way. "We wanted to change the world, but the world changed us," says Antonio, the aging hospital orderly. Yet Mr. Scola recognizes this as the windy cliché of someone given to self-dramatization. After 30 years the three friends are more worn, more tired, more experienced than they were as young men, but neither the world nor time has changed them in any essential ways. That's the bitter truth.

Awards:
César Awards, France
1977 Won César Best Foreign Film

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
1975 Won Silver Ribbon Best Supporting Actor Aldo Fabrizi
Best Supporting Actress Giovanna Ralli

Moscow International Film Festival
1975 Won Golden Prize Ettore Scola

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Language: Italian with English subtitle
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Ettore Scola - Il Commissario Pepe AKA Police Chief Pepe (1969)

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A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.

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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Ettore Scola - Gente di Roma (2003)

From IMDB:

A collection of Anecdotes, 30 November 2005
5/10
Author: Kandarp Mehta from Spain

'Gente di Roma' is a collection of anecdotes. Or I should say, that the director has many things to convey and doesn't want to bind it in a story. 'People of Rome', is at the heart of this movie. Movie doesn't have any official script or storyline. The director wants to show some sections of people of Rome and he does it rather honestly. As a cinematic experiment it is interesting. As the movie doesn't have a particular story or theme, when you leave the cinema hall, you are not sure, how to feel and what to feel. The movie claims to be a reflection of people of Rome and their lives. The first half of the movie is quite light and funny. You get a humorous impression of Romans. But than, the movie suddenly changes its mood. It becomes slower and sad.

However movie is an honest account of several problems gripping Italian and even European society. It talks boldly about racism and racist attitude of some sections of the society. It talks about mixed feelings of the indigenous people towards immigrants. It also talks about economic stagnation and unemployment of people. It symbolically addresses the issue of homosexuality. And the part, movie is most vocal about, is the problem of senior citizens. European demography has changed a lot after the second world war. Now it's a society with lots of old people. However, with family system fading away, taking care of senior citizens is becoming a problem. There is a scene where a father and a son are talking over dinner at a restaurant. The old father is cribbing about everything. He is making fun of the waiter and people around. The son is not able to keep the father with him. And the father gives excellent expression of pleading. You can read in his eyes that he craves to be with his grandchildren.

I think it's a movie, where the director doesn't want to convey anything. He just wants to express some random thoughts about Rome. He is critical about the city but still you feel that he loves the city. Hence it turns out be an expression of a personal sentiment. But it may fail to appeal masses. If you want to see something different, you can try this one. But don't expect to be entertained!!!