Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero 'stamattina alle 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza...' (1973)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Lina Wertmüller

Writer:

Lina Wertmüller (writer)

Release Date:

29 March 1974 (Finland)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.

Plot Keywords:

Love | Mussolini | Brothel | Assassination | Rome

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Giancarlo Giannini	...	Antonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'
Mariangela Melato	...	Salomè
Eros Pagni	...	Giacinto Spatoletti
Pina Cei	...	Madame Aïda
Elena Fiore	...	Donna Carmela
Giuliana Calandra
Isa Bellini
Isa Danieli	...	Prostitute
Enrica Bonaccorti	...	Prostitute
Anna Bonaiuto	...	Prostitute
Anita Branzanti	...	Prostitute
Maria Sciacca	...	Prostitute
Anna Melato	...	Prostitute
Gea Linchi	...	Prostitute
Anna Stivala	...	Prostitute
Josiane Tanzilli	...	Prostitute
Valeria Piaggio	...	Prostitute
Franca Salerno
Roberto Herlitzka	...	Pautasso
Anna Maria Dossena
Mario Nandi
Maria Capparelli
Gianfranco Barra
Lina Polito	...	Tripolina
Lorenzo Piani
Luigi Antonio Guerra

Directed by
Lina Wertmüller

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Lina Wertmüller		writer

Produced by
Romano Cardarelli	....	producer

Original Music by
Nino Rota
Carlo Savina

Cinematography by
Giuseppe Rotunno

Film Editing by
Franco Fraticelli
Fima Noveck

Art Direction by
Gianni Giovagnoni

Costume Design by
Enrico Job

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gianni Arduini	....	first assistant director

Other crew
Peter Fernandez	....	voice director: English version

Production Companies

• Euro International Film (EIA)

Distributors

• Filmcenter Cinematográfica (1974) (Brazil) (theatrical)
• Peppercorn-Wormser (1974) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1982) (USA) (VHS)
• Fox Lorber Home Video (1997) (USA) (DVD)
• Large Door Video (Australia) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Film d'amore e d'anarchia (Italy) (short title)
Love and Anarchy (USA)

Runtime:

USA:120 min | Italy:124 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Brazil:18 | Finland:K-16 | USA:R | Hong Kong:IIB

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Euro International Film (EIA)

Quotes:

Salome: Feelings are a luxury and this is war.

Movie Connections:

References The Sheik (1921)

Soundtrack:

Ninna Nanna

Lots of anarchy but very little love

The well-regarded director Wertmuller made this movie which is a slow study into how brutality and violence can be saved my love in my opinion. It is very operatic which is how she chose to attack it. The direction, I can say is flawless but the movie feels incomplete. First, I am more the director who uses visual images rather than hammy stagey dialogue to tell their stories. Carnini is the only actor who does not use a pantomime, overexagerrated style in the movie until the very end, while everybody else does. It softens the impact of the movie as it is the quieter moments that carry real weight. The style of direction is very narchiac with wonderful wide shots and good editing creating an effigy of exuberance over the picture. Most of the picture set in an italian bordello where the fascists of italy stay is a place for both love between carnini and pesilamo. Images are beautiful, and certain individual scenes work while others don't. We are left with a great understanding of what love must feel like but the brutality of man is never explained. It esssentially sets up the theory that all fascists are naturally evil. The ending tells us it is the stoty of one man while the movie sets it up as the story of every man. This the best explanation I can give without speaking too much about its plot. Wertmuller was much better in Swept away and seven beauties. But for an introduction to Wertmuller, and arty Italian cinema of the sixties and seventies which dealt very operaticly with evils of fascism.