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Luigi Pirandello (novel)
Marco Bellocchio (story) ...
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Release Date:
21 May 1999 (Italy) more
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Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 5 nominations more
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A beautiful, melancholy movie not quite like realistic Italian style more (3 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Fabrizio Bentivoglio | ... | Prof. Mori |
| Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | ... | Vittoria Mori |
 | Maya Sansa | ... | Annetta |
| Jacqueline Lustig | ... | Maddalena |
| Pier Giorgio Bellocchio | ... | Nardi |
| Gisella Burinato | ||
| Elda Alvigini | ... | Lena |
| Eleonora Danco | ... | Patient |
| Fabio Camilli | ... | Broker |
| Michele Placido | ... | Belli Estate Patient |
| Alessandra Bacialupi | ||
| Letizia Bellocchio | ||
| Maria Luisa Bellocchio | ||
| Anna Maria Calvelli | ||
| Francesca Calvelli |
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Also Known As:
The Nanny
The Wet-Nurse (Canada: English title)
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106 min
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Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | France:U | Italy:T
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I saw this movie in a EU film festival in Vancouver last year and was deeply moved. Quite unlike most other realistic Italian films, the film is a a "sober, unerringly controlled psychological drama about motherhood and mental frailty" (David Rooney, Variety). A Roman psychiatrist hires an illiterate country girl to serve as a wet nurse for his newborn child when his wife is unable to breast feed (or love) it. The maternal theme (and frequent nursing scenes) contribute welcome warmth to the director's customary rich visual style, while the plot points the wet-nurse has a jailed political activist husband and a small child of her own whom she must temporarily forsake in order to earn a living. It is an elegant film with slow rhythms, poetic psychoanalytical discourse and warm motif of maternity, loyalty, love and understanding. Beautiful and compassionate Italian masterpiece in the 1990's!