Word: giancarlo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent films except All Screwed Up have been made with Giancarlo Giannini. His presence galvanizes her movies. His racked, searching eyes haunt them. "Those eyes are extraordinary," Wertmuller told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos. "They seem to contain an independent life force-as if they could scream, curse, plead, argue and make love." Giannini, like Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni before him, fulfills the perennial audience yearning for a romantic image and the abiding need for an adroit actor of humor and mercurial sensibility...
Wertmuller relies on Giannini as much on the set as off. They work out bits of business together, constantly confer between takes. "Lina and Giancarlo work together as if they were one being," says Job, who is also his wife's art director. "The same images dance in front of their eyes. They instinctively share similar visions...
...friend Flora, she met Federico Fellini, for whom she worked as an assistant on 8½. "It was one of those experiences," she says now, "that open new dimensions of life." The relationship was more inspirational and intellectual than practical. "More than anybody," says Enrico Job, "it was Giancarlo who helped Lina to launch into films, introducing her to producers, backers and so on. Without him, she would probably still be waiting for a chance...
Studying to become an aeronautical engineer, Giannini was a friendless perfectionist who would often spread textbooks on the kitchen table to test their accuracy on a given point. One day when he was 15, an old man approached Giancarlo on a Naples street. He was a bookseller, a total stranger, and he told the boy about a group of students who had formed an amateur theater. "He was like a mysterious phantom messenger from a Bergman movie," Giannini says. "I'd never seen the old man before. I have not seen him since." That night, Giannini went...
...fulfillment. His eight-year marriage to Actress Livia Giampaolo raises as many doubts as it solves problems; his two young sons are a puzzlement as well as a joy. He has tried to paint, and had a one-man show of his abstracts in Milan that was successful. "Giancarlo," says Job, "has tried painting and come back...