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The 1977 film "A Special Day" is set in the late thirties, during Hitler's visit to Italy, and covers great territory - there are politics, family life, psychological insight and human tragedies all in a well presented package.To say the performances are good would be a trivial addition, so if you have not seen it - definitely get it, it is available from the Netflix.
On the scale of 10 this one is perhaps 8 1/2, which is incredibly good, in other words.
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Coincidentally I was thinking about renting this on Netflix a few days ago. Unfortunately a few Netflix users reported that the transfer to DVD was not of very good quality and that it was badly dubbed instead of subtitled. Too bad if that is indeed the case.I remember seeing "A Special Day" in the theatre a couple of times when it first came out. A great film with a good story and acting and atypical roles for both Mastroianni and Loren. Solidly recommended, especially on the big screen.
I guess I am not one of the new age videophiles - I accept poor quality quite easily... heck, I still listen to 78's sometimes. I don't get stuck on video quality as long as you can still recognize the faces... just partially true, but having grown up watching horrible VHS's, this was not even close. I still recall things like Teorema and Persona, which you simply could not watch in those days.Now that you mentioned it, it is true, the quality was not great, but one has to deal with it when watching older films, so I immediately forgot about it. On a scale of 10 it was probably 5 or 6... not Star Wars, but not the most horrible either.
Ditto for dubbing. It irritated me for a few minutes, but actually, the two voices selected for the lead actors were not bad at all, and as far as dubbings go that one also wasn't intrusive after you started going with the flow. The voices were indeed quite close to the familiar ones of Sophia and Marchello, and you know, with bad dubbing it is usually the intonation that bothers you most of all, and here it sounded quite natural most of the time.
So yes, those are valid points, but it would be a shame if they kept you from taking a look at that film.
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If I had to answer with a simple yes or no... then yes, definitely better. But why choose? Why not see them both? Double your fun!
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