Word: mastroianni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ends up so smitten that he resorts first to drugs, then to suicide in his despair over failing to gain possession of her. Marcello Mastroianni plays the one who ruined her when she was an adolescent, and still holds power over...
...fact is that of a sex farce, though its tone is more appropriate to a sentimental comedy. The disparity may arise because Director Marco Vicario (Homo Eroticus) can't quite manage the French trick of finding cuckoldry hilarious. The situation, at any rate, is satisfactorily ridiculous. Luigi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a wealthy wine merchant, an idealist and a writer of tracts on the equality of women. He is also a great philanderer, with mistresses and bastard children all around Italy. But what has that to do with idealism...
...amusing, but not howlingly funny. A couple of reasons suggest themselves. One is that Antonelli has none of the fire in her eyes that might be expected of a revenge-bound wife in a farce. She plays her scenes as if they were high drama. Another is that Mastroianni, though not quite so sober, lets us see too much of the pain that an actual man would feel under such circumstances...
There was also widespread criticism of the secrecy in which the work of Steptoe and Edwards was conducted. The Uni versity of Pennsylvania's Dr. Luigi Mastroianni, who has him self fertilized eggs in vitro but never attempted to implant them, points out that the British researchers had not provided any details about the condition of Mrs. Brown's fallopian tubes. "If they are completely absent," said Mastroianni, "you must accept the fact that the egg was fertilized in vitro. But if they are just damaged, there's always the possibility that the egg may actually have been fertilized...
Moving as this story often is, the film suffers from compression. In the effort to confine the action to a single day, the screenwriters lean on stagy plot contrivances that are endemic to old-fashioned plays. Mastroianni's performance adds another synthetic note: this fine actor works hard, but seems miscast as a defeated and dejected homosexual...