"I Can Have You When I Want!"

Advantages: A visual masterpiece
Disadvantages: Overlong and slighly naff

.... When the young innocent returns to the room Betty is forced to watch the slow painful murder of her young lover. But this is not an isolated incident, for each time Betty is alone with someone the maniac strikes again; who is the killer and what do they want? Cast Cristina Marsillach .... Betty Ian Charleson .... Marco Urbano Barberini .... Inspector Alan Santini Daria Nicolodi .... Mira Coralina Cataldi Tassoni .... Giulia Antonella Vitale .... Marion William McNamara .... Stefano Barbara Cupisti .... Signora Albertini Antonino Iuorio .... Baddini (as Antonio Juorio) Carola Stagnaro .... Alma's mother Francesca Cassola .... Alma At the time the film was made Cristina Marsillach had just finished working on a romantic war tale with Tom Hanks called Everytime We Say Goodbye. She was destined...

sghawken 17.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of Terror At The Opera (Subtitled) (Wide Screen) (DVD)

The Perils of Conformism

Advantages: Pellucid examination of character; riveting story; compelling, thought-provoking ideas; excellent translation.
Disadvantages: None

..., sweet satisfaction from hurting lizards and other small animals. He seems unable to curb his strange attraction to deadly weapons and the power they confer upon their owner. None of those toy guns or swords or wooden imitations for him?only the real thing will do. As a young teen, Clerici's overwhelming need to own a gun will lead to his reluctant participation in a pivotal event in his life, an incident that will cast a long shadow upon the rest of his years. Fifteen years hence, we meet Clerici again. Now a secret agent for Italy's Fascist state headed by Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, he finds a reassuring comfort in the external trappings of "normality". His young, flighty, simple, middle-class fiance, Giulia, aspires to nothing more than to marry Clerici, bear his children, live in an apartment furnished exactly like her parents...

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Review of The Conformist - Alberto Moravia

A Disturbed Mind

Advantages: A good read, well written and intriguing
Disadvantages: Complex themes

..., Marcello mother, his wife and his lover are rather shallow limited in their scope. Marcello mother is an ageing flirt, caked in makeup and constantly flirting even uncomfortably with Marcello. His wife Giulia is simple wanting no more than to be married have children and life a comfortable middle class life, she loves Marcello in her own way but this like their very sexual relations mean little to him. Even after they have made love and conceived their child he sees it as just another part of his acceptance of normality devoid of love or any emotion. "I have been a man like all other men?I have loved, I have united myself with a woman and have begotten another human being." The detachment of the character is chilling. His 'lover' Lina is a manipulative temptress again a very sexual being that is intent on corrupting him and Giulia...

Mauri 22.04.2004 (23.04.2004) · Read review
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Review of The Conformist - Alberto Moravia

SEX AND POLITICS

Advantages: A masterpiece
Disadvantages: Art house style not for everyone

...camera style. Finally George Delerue provides an effective musical soundtrack, which complement the action perfectly. ?Il Conformista? is a dark moody, disturbing masterpiece of filmmaking and probably Bertolucci at his very best. Anyone who know the book or who is interested in the art of filmmaking should see this film. CAST & TECHNICAL DETAILS Jean-Louis Trintignant ... Marcello Clerici Stefania Sandrelli ... Giulia Gastone Moschin ... Manganiello Enzo Tarascio ... Professor Quadri Fosco Giachetti ... Il Colonnello Dominique Sanda? Anna Quadri José Quaglio ... Italo Directed and written by Bernardo Bertolucci based on a novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia. Bertolucci rightly received an Oscar nomination for this adaptation and the film made his reputation as one of the brightest young talents of his...

Mauri 10.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Conformist

Italian lessons in love

Advantages: Heartwarming look at life and blossoming relationships
Disadvantages: Ties up too neatly

...unexpectedly at Karen's salon begging for money or help. During one of these incidents, she is dealing with... Halvfinn (Lars Kaalund) the floppy haired and scruffy hotel restaurant manager. He's completely rude to his customers, colleagues, and unfortunately his bosses who want him sacked. He's fluent in Italian and translates for his colleague... Giulia (Sara Indrio Jensen), a young Italian waitress who barely speaks Danish. She spends most of her time praying that Jorgen will notice her, even though he is 10 years older and doesn't speak Italian. Olympia (Anette Stovelbaek) is the excessively clumsy bakery assistant who takes leftover cakes to her ungrateful and extremely bitter homebound father every night. Her father constantly compares her to her mother, who abandoned them when she was a child. Their seemingly completely...

chinnyli 29.05.2002 · Read review
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Review of Italian For Beginners (Subtitled) (DVD)

Formaggio Molto Bello

Advantages: Very versatile
Disadvantages: Possibly the cost

...I love all cheese, but there is something special about Parmesan. Just the sight of the Buitoni containers on the supermarket shelf gets my appetite going. The Buitoni colours are easy to spot : bright yellow with a red pattern, and a red lid on the large size. The 80g size costs £0.84 and the 250g £2.28 (current prices, Tesco online). It makes sense to buy the larger one if you know you like the product. It has a grainy texture, due to the manufacturing process, and is slightly salty, but the overwhelming taste is intense, a cheese taste unlike any other cheese, strong and pungent, unmistakable, impossible to describe because it?s a one-off. Since 1988 the Buitoni name has been owned by the Nestlé company, something which could never have been envisaged by the woman who first made it famous. Mamma Giulia Buitoni lived in...

Schmutzie 01.01.2003 · Read review
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Review of Buitoni Parmesan Cheese

No longer on the edge of the world...

Advantages: Only two hours away, compact size
Disadvantages: Didn't have long enough there!

...On 5th March 1946 in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill, then Leader of the Opposition in Great Britain, declared 'From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent.' Until I had cause to visit Trieste earlier this year that is what Trieste meant to me - a quote I learnt at school. It was fitting, then, that Trieste should be an overnight stop on my way to Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia and until the early 1990s behind the 'iron curtain' and firmly within the Soviet sphere of influence as defined by Churchill. Trieste is situated in the far north western corner of Italy in the region of Friulli-Venezia Giulia, which borders Slovenia and Austria. It is a former Habsburg city and this influence is apparent from the architectural styles of its more recent buildings, its cuisine...

fizzytom 22.10.2004 (08.08.2005) · Read review
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Review of Trieste (Italy)

OK for a flying visit...

Advantages: Useful for lots onward travel possibilites, good public transport links
Disadvantages: See below

...who is wishing to avoid the more expense fares involved in flying directly to Venice. Klagenfurt in south east Austria is 200 KM away. For anyone wishing to visit the Italian Alps, Ronchi dei Legionari would be an ideal airport to use. In fact, if you fly in from British or German airports you will have a spectacular flight over the Alps - I will never forget how breath-taking it was to cruise just above the snowy mountains. The area in which the airport is situated is known as Friuli-Venezia Giulia and while it is not as well known as, say, Lombardy, Liguria or Tuscany as a region of Italy it has plenty to offer visitors and the scenery is attractive. My bus journey into Trieste was lovely as we followed the Adriatic coastline into the city. The sea shimmered beautifully and we passed romantic castellos overlooking the sea as, now...

fizzytom 24.03.2004 (26.03.2004) · Read review
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Review of Ronchi dei Legionari - Trieste Airport