Another case rather isolated in the background of Italian cinema during 60s is Paolo Spinola, who made the best debut as a director in 1964: “La fuga”, a movie which Spinola shot aged 35 after a long activity as assistant director and scriptwriter. It’s the first Italian movie explicitly and fully based on a psychoanalytic plot. “La fuga” (which is also the best script written by Sergio Amidei during 60s and the best acting performance by Giovanna Ralli, who won the Nastro d’Argento prize as the best leading actress of that year thanks to this movie) suggests an attentive and meticulous investigation of a neurosis suffered by Piera, a typical woman from the Italian affluent society, wife of a successful engineer and living a ménage seemingly with no worries. The movie, partially following the external symptomatology of neurosis, partially recalling its symbolic expressions and its removed causes on a psychoanalyst’s couch, constructs piece by piece the itinerary of an existential unease which will end up dramatically, in spite of the psychoanalytic cure. The movie depicts actually an existential unease because, although the serious scientific apparatus of the movie is intended to draw the clinical picture in the traditional analytic terms, it seems to be closer to “The divided Self” by Laig than to the Freudian orthodoxy. But far from being a fault, this is surely the greatest quality of this work, along with the wordly-wise narration excellently built up around an extraordinary story and uncommon characters.

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Runtime:	1h 31mn
Size:	1.36 GiB
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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

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