Profumo di donna is really a masterpiece of the Italian cinema.A very good story of a blind officer,Fausto,strong as a lion,ready for every fight, arrogant, who will travel from Turin to Napoli with the little help for young soldier Giovanni.Then we follow his tribulations and the last stay in Napoli where a young woman (Sara) tries to take part in the life of Fausto.
The performance of Vittorio Gassman is superb (at the same time strong, arrogant but also weak and lost): Alesandro Momo is also a good actor and Agostina Belli ,that I saw in "L'ultima neve di primavera" is a very good actress.
When I was looking this film I remember "Scent of a Woman" directed by Martin West with Al Pacino !!
In both films the main character is a blind officer, with a sharp sense of sense, aggressive, sometimes arrogant but also with depressive moments who make a travel with a young person (soldier or student).The ends of the films are very different.
It's quite difficult to compare the Italian cinema of seventies with the cinema of United States of the nineties.
Nevertheless I prefer "Profumo di donna" because this film is more powerful, more stronger and more human than "Scent of a woman".
Review of Scent of a Woman
