Along the way, there are some indelible images and one unforgettable, devastating scene, in which a has-been actor (Still, this is an insightful document that recognized the strains, pitfalls and hypocrisies of the sexual revolution even as it was beginning. Adriana is just their latest victim. 68 out of 72 found this helpful. We never know what she can do well, apart from be charming and look terrific. A great capsule of life in Italy in the early 60s. A definite highlight of Italian filmmaker Antonio Pietrangeli's career, on which would be tragically put a kibosh by his untimely death in 1968, in reality, people do die of drowning after falling off a cliff. So in the end I can't help but thinking that the author was part and parcel of the very system it pretends to critique here. Was this review helpful?
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And when she has a chance to make it, the film of her mocks her pretensions and rips her dreams through ridicule; she is mocks as someone of no education, a 20 something who goes from bed to bed and in the end aging will walk the pavement for her living. Was this review helpful? I Knew Her Well (1965) (Movie Clip) Open, Make Haste Slowly Opening from director Antonio Pietrangeli, finding his title character (Stefania Sandrelli as Adriana) on the beach, late for her job at the seaside beauty salon, in I Knew Her Well, 1965.
Ironically titled, beautifully shot and well-acted, this is a real 'sleeper' from late in the Golden Age of Italian cinema. Of course, this film was the labour of love of Antonio Pitrangeli, a very experienced director, but somewhat underrated ( nobody would put him on a pedestal alongside Fellini or Visconti).This film, undoubtedly,would make film critics and the audience reconsider the hierarchy of the Italian cinema Olympus dwellers. 2 out of 4 found this helpful. Sandrelli is so good (and so beautiful) that she manages to make her character attaching in spite of her flaws.
Box Office; Oscar … The soundtrack by Piero Piccioni,like the sound of a torn string in the middle of a tune, suggests a young life broken before it has blossomed. Of course, she wants to be an actress. 60's music, Sergio Endrigo, Mina, Ornella Vanoni, Peppino Di Capri, Gilbert Becaud, contribute greatly to achieving a distressing atmosphere, which will eventually lead the heroine(Stefania Sandrelli) to suicide. She works at odd jobs, but is kept by an madam of sorts in a high rent, high rise flat in Rome. Criterion Collection has released 'Io la conocevo bebe' (I knew her well) a half century after its first showing. She goes through as many hairstyles as boyfriends in the course of the film, and though among them there are some recognizable faces (Franco Nero is the shy young auto mechanic here; the following year he would be cold-blooded killer DJANGO), the hairstyles tend to be more memorable than the men. Humiliated she throws herself off her balcony as the credits roll up the screen.
One charmer skips out in the early morning from a hotel encounter, leaving Adriana stuck with the bill.
But because she does not know anyone, and is both naive and not very bright to boot, she takes many wrong turns and indulges all the wrong people. — This man was no master, take my word for it. 13 out of 19 found this helpful. 2 out of 3 found this helpful. This film is very entertaining, because we are in Rome in 1964, it feels and looks like a hot summer all along, and the dresses worn by Sandrelli are unbelievably glamorous. A commentary on a youth that is not golden and knows no future but the fleeting moment of sense 'fame', if you can call it that.
The Prestige (2006) #47 on IMDb Top Rated Movies » MOVIES. It's sub-Fellini: you wait for a scene to develop with a certain verve, excitement--and you're so often let down by the plodding approach of Pietrangeli. Perhaps. Pietangeli the director skilfully uses the pope tunes of the day to anchor the mood and the state of Adriana's existential highs and lows.
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