Romolo Valli

  • Mario Soldati – Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura (1959)

    1951-1960ComedyItalyMario Soldati

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    The action is focused at the end of the 19th century. Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo seeks a promotion and a raise that never came, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a “specialized mechanic” (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .Read More »

  • Costa-Gavras – Clair de femme AKA Womanlight (1979)

    Costa-Gavras1971-1980DramaFrance

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    With his wife dying a slow and undignified natural death, Michel prepares to leave France and catch a plane to Caracas. At the airport, he has second thoughts. Whilst walking the streets of Paris, he runs into Lydia, a middle-aged woman whose husband is brain damaged after a car accident in which her daughter died. Michel and Lydia find mutual support in each other’s company, but are they destined for one another…?Read More »

  • Eriprando Visconti – Una storia milanese AKA A Milanese Story (1962)

    Drama1961-1970Eriprando ViscontiItaly

    Giampiero is a young and rich middle-class boy, who carries all the limits and weaknesses of his environment. He is smart and dynamic, but he is unable to have an active and demanding attitude towards life. Valeria comes from a less sophisticated environment, but she is indecisive and confused as well: she would like to have a job, but she knows she can give up only in exchange for a good marriage. Their love story develops in the winter season, in a Milan that feels imprisoned by the myths of the financial miracle. Their relationship ends almost tragically: the girl gives up on Giampiero and leaves him to go have an abortion in Switzerland.Read More »

  • Valentino Orsini & Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani – I fuorilegge del matrimonio AKA Outlaws of Love (1963)

    1961-1970ComedyItalyPaolo TavianiValentino OrsiniVittorio Tavian



    Studies of various married couples, who under Italian law as it stands, are unable to be freed from a painful and unhappy marriage. Read More »

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