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La domenica specialmente (1991) Online
Original Title :
La domenica specialmente
Genre :
Movie / Drama
Year :
1991
Directror :
Francesco Barilli,Giuseppe Bertolucci
Cast :
Philippe Noiret,Ornella Muti,Bruno Ganz
Writer :
Tonino Guerra
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 58min
Rating :
6.5/10
La domenica specialmente (1991) Online

A collection of tales set on the Adriatic coast.
Credited cast:
Ornella Muti Ornella Muti - Anna (segment "La domenica specialmente")
Philippe Noiret Philippe Noiret - Amleto (segment "Il cane blu")
Bruno Ganz Bruno Ganz - Vittorio (segment "La domenica specialmente")
Jean-Hugues Anglade Jean-Hugues Anglade - Motociclista degli uccellini (segment "Le chiese di legno")
Maddalena Fellini Maddalena Fellini - Caterina (segment "La neve sul fuoco") (as Maria Maddalena Fellini)
Chiara Caselli Chiara Caselli - Sposa (segment "La neve sul fuoco")
Nicoletta Braschi Nicoletta Braschi - Nicoletta (segment "La domenica specialmente")
Sergio Bini Bustric Sergio Bini Bustric - (segment "Le chiese di legno")
Andrea Prodan Andrea Prodan - Marco (segment "La domenica specialmente")
Ivano Marescotti Ivano Marescotti - Don Vincenzo (segment "La neve sul fuoco")
Josse De Pauw Josse De Pauw - Lupo (segment "La neve sul fuoco") (as Joss De Paw)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bruno Bendoni Bruno Bendoni - Sposo (segment "La neve sul fuoco")
Giuseppe Bertolucci Giuseppe Bertolucci - Il ragazzino degli uccellini
Nicola Di Pinto Nicola Di Pinto - Il Pastore (segment "Il cane blu")
Irene Grazioli Irene Grazioli - Michela (segment "La neve sul fuoco")


User reviews

Akirg

Akirg

(Some spoilers) "Especially on Sunday" was made in Italy as a four-episode film by different directors,with an additional framing story by one of them.

The first story, "The Blue Dog" – "Il cane blu" was directed by Giuseppe Tornatore of "Cinema Paradiso" fame and, like that film, features French actor Philippe Noiret. He is a barber/cobbler who is literally hounded by a dog…with a mysterious blue spot on his head. Our hero does not like dogs and spends a great deal of energy shaking it off, including when it follows him into a church service and disrupts the liturgy. The man almost shoots the critter, but someone beats him to it. The injured dog limps away, and with increasing remorse, the man tries to find his lost devoted friend. The sequence is a poignant one, I must confess, and is the one I like best. It is a nod to that other gentle man/dog film, Vittorio De Sica's "Umberto D."

The second episode (third in the U.S. release) is called "Snow on Fire" – "Il fuoco sulla neve," by Marco Tullio Giordana, and is a tale of sexual voyeurism in which Maddalena Fellini observes her son and daughter-in-law having sex. She watches though a hole in the floor above the couple's room.

The experience stirs long lost longings in her in a way that is, incredibly, quite moving and tender. And the young wife's awareness that she is being seen, adds fervor and intensity to her conjugal coitus.

The third piece (second in the U.S. release) is called "Especially on Sunday" – "La domenica specialmente." It was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci and has Ornella Muti attracted to this stranger (Bruno Ganz) in a Mercedes, but her weird companion hinders any sexual intimacy between the two. The segment is a minor-key dissertation on the demands of libido, and I found it to be tiresome.

The final episode is called "Wooden Churches" –"Le chiese di legno" and was directed by Francesco Barilli . It is about 12 minutes long and has an aimless Sergio Bini gawking at all the flesh at a city carnival before rushing off to a beach where three floating wooden churches are lit up with candles. It is a Fellini-esque exercise with some appealing visual flourishes and not much characterization. It was cut from the U.S. release.

Framing the entire film is a story "The Man of the Birds – "L'uomo degli uccelli" in which a man on a motorcycle shows a little boy some birds. It too was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. It doesn't add up to a plate of fagioli but is cute and lyrical.
Jorad

Jorad

The 1st segment is about a dog who keeps following a barber, the 3rd about a mother who likes to watch her son and his wife while they're having sex, the 4th kind of wraps them all together.

But the best is the 3rd, with Bruno Ganz. This is one of the best things in cinema terms to ever come out of Europe, its 20 minutes are nothing but brilliant. It's about an older man who gives a ride to a beautiful and innocent young woman and her stupid male friend. Great story.