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Adult film time: Visconti's La Notte Bianchi with Marcello and Maria Schell.

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What happens when two people meet and are desperately in love--- but one of them loves another? Certainly, in the hands of most directors, this would be melodrama at its best, or worst.
But Visconti is a master of illusion: The sets in this film are almost surreal, as if theatre sets had been moved and filmed outdoors, as claustrophobic and mysterious as the emotions of the characters. The score by Nino complements the mood, alternately dashing and elevating our hopes.
Antonioni and Fellini covered the same ground, that of disaffection and a sense of purposelessness in post-war Italy and the seeming impossibility of love after such a shock to the human soul, but in starkly different ways.
Visconti shows hope is indestructible and that, corny as it sounds to moderns, love is eternal.
(For the action afficionatti, all is not lost: there is a realistic fight scene...).
Do not neglect this film if you enjoy Italian cinema.


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Topic - Adult film time: Visconti's La Notte Bianchi with Marcello and Maria Schell. - tinear 09:53:39 12/18/05 (5)


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