This story is told in flashback, on a steamer, Romano, a middle-aged Italian man recounts to a Russian passenger Pavel (Larionov) his hopeless infatuation to a Russian lady Anna (Safonova), whom he has first met in a convalescent sanatorium. In Venice 73', a tribute to Marcello Mastroianni, we watched a screening of this vintage Italy-USSR- USA co-production directed by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov in mint condition, restored with an approximately 20-minute additional footage to its original theatrical and DVD length of 117 minutes, including additional scenes of Isabella Rossellini, who plays the daughter of our principal character Romano (Mastroianni).ĭARK EYES won Mastroianni his second BEST ACTOR prize in Cannes, and reaped a third Oscar nomination for him, all his three nominations are from foreign language pictures, which is a second to none achievement in the Academy history, presently only Javier Bardem and Marion Cotillard seem to have the chance to match that record. Reviewed by lasttimeisaw 8 / 10 Saw this in Venice in its restored version on the big screen The story drags a bit in places, and lengthy passages of Russian without subtitles started to detract after a while (I'm not sure if this was the fault of the print I watched, or if it was intentional, to show the language barrier faced by Mastroianni's character).
I wasn't familiar with the Russian leads, Elena Safonova and Vsevolod Larionov, but they are fine as well. Silvano Mangano plays his wife, and Marthe Keller appears as a family friend. Marcello Mastroianni received his final of three Best Actor Oscar nominations for this, and he's wonderful as usual. The film is gorgeously photographed, and much attention is paid to costume and set design, as well as delicate color schemes. After many overtures toward a romance, the Russian wife flees back home, and the Italian follows her, ostensibly on business, but truly in hopes of sparking the romance further. The Italian tells his story in flashback, as we see him fight with his rich wife, which sends him to a health spa to recuperate, where he meets a bored, young and beautiful Russian woman who is herself unhappily married. This Russian-Italian co-production from 1987 finds two older men, one Italian, the other Russian, talking in the empty dining hall of a slow ocean liner.
Reviewed by AlsExGal 7 / 10 well done international tale of romance His amazed and appreciative Russian listener then narrates a shorter story. He pursues her into the Russian heartland and returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
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In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife's opulent home to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman whose marriage is a horror. Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.
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