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Italiano
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Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she's a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate. Working under the name of Miele (Honey), her clandestine job is to help terminally-ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug. One day she supplies a new client with a fatal dose, only to find out he's perfectly healthy but tired of life. Irene is...
Series
Criterion collection volume 149
Language
Italiano
Description
When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious [text missing ] ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
3) Ludwig
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Italiano
Description
Visconti's lavish portrait of Ludwig II, the 'Mad King' of Bavaria. From his glittering coronation to his mysterious suicide, Ludwig II (Helmut Berger) epitomised the doomed nineteenth-century Romantic hero. A loner by nature, he was tormented by his unrequited love for his cousin, Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Romy Schneider), who sensed his true sexual nature and fragile grip on reality. But as war raged around him, Ludwig's sole obsession remained...
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Italiano
Description
"For his first commission, infantry lieutenant Drogo is stationed at a remote desert garrison on the mist-shrouded border of the North Kingdom. Filling their days with endless drilling, the soldiers of Fortezza Bastiani spend the long nights wondering about an enemy no one has ever seen. As the days stretch into months, the strain of waiting for attack takes its toll on Drago's comrades: sadistic major Mattis, sardonic Lieutenant Simeon, cynical medic...
5) Sophia Loren
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Italiano
Description
"Attila: In this dramatic war epic, Sophia Loren promises to marry Attilla the Hun if he topples her hated brother, the Emperor of Italy, from power; I girasoli (Sunflower): After her husband is declared MIA while fighting in Russia during World War II, his widow searches records and cemeteries, only to learn he is alive and remarried; Madame Sans-Gêne: Sophia Loren, the outspoken, rambunctious laundress of an unknown lieutenant, Napoleon, later...