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...like working for Napoleon. She's a great general," says Actress Candice Bergen of her latest director, Lino Wertmuller. Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini are in Rome filming A Night Full of Rain, Wertmuller's first movie in English. To make it, Wertmuller says, is like "flying blind." Giannini spent six months studying the language for his part as an English-speaking Italian journalist. As for Bergen, cast as a former American college radical who falls in love with Giancarlo, she has different language problems. "At this point, my English is beginning to break up," she says. "I find...
SEVEN BEAUTIES. A born survivor's natural talents are put to the ultimate test by World War II in Lina Wertmuller's hard-charging, shrilly-pitched black comedy. Giancarlo Giannini is sulphurously splendid as the small-time crook who finds the great world as much a slum as the Naples back streets where he was born. His energy-and the director's-propel one compulsively through the movie's several stomach-churning moments...
...movie gets a charge from the high-voltage presence of Giancarlo Giannini, Director Lina Wertmuller's favorite actor (Seven Beauties; Swept Away). Here, with rambunctious energy, Giannini assumes roles in eight separate vignettes, playing everything from a lawyer hung up on dowagers to a simple, wistful yokel who unknowingly ar ranges an assignation with a transvestite. His partner in most of these episodes is a young Italian actress, Laura Antonelli, who, in a more innocent time, might have been called a lollapalooza. Antonelli has the face of a ravished angel, the shape of legend...
This precarious life seems just right for Giancarlo Gianninni's face. His pout--pained, bewildered, yet still bemused--expresses perfectly the exasperation of a would-be romantic with nothing but compromised causes to champion. And when Gianninni beds with a town official's voluminous wife to repay her husband for cuckolding him, even the eyefull of female rear end Wertmuller gives us--sexist as it is--manages to drive home its grotesque point amidst this old order gone modern and absurd...
...mask of success is a deception because behind it is hidden a very terrible face." At his bleakest moments, he swears that had he known where acting would lead him, he would have become an engineer. "Nonsense," says Lina Wertmuller. "Giancarlo was born to be an actor. He was born to work at my side. And I was born to work at his. Our fates are sealed...