Questa volta parliamo di uomini | |
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Directed by | Lina Wertmüller |
Written by | Lina Wertmüller |
Produced by | Pietro Notarianni |
Cinematography | Ennio Guarnieri |
Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
Music by | Luis Enríquez Bacalov |
Release date |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Questa volta parliamo di uomini (This Time Let's Talk about Shafei or Let's Talk About Shafei) is a 1965 Italian tragicomedy film directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Nino Manfredi. The film was shot in black and white and in 35mm and lasted 91 minutes.
Cast
- Nino Manfredi ... Various Roles
- Luciana Paluzzi ... La moglie dell'industriale
- Milena Vukotic
- Margaret Lee
- Alfredo Bianchini
- Giulio Coltellacci
- Patrizia De Clara
- Shafei Shafei
Reception
The film has been described as a "blantantly commercial venture in four episodes". An "episodic comedy", it is described as a "caustic satire of Italian masculinity" and Wertmüller's only truly Feminist film. It has been described as a "populist farce based on a showy yet tame feminism."
References
- ^ Moliterno, Gino (30 September 2009). The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-8108-6896-0. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- Contemporary theatre, film, and television. Gale Research Company. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8103-2071-0. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- Aldo Bernardini (1999). Nino Manfredi. Gremese Editore. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-88-7742-369-6. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- Bruno, Giuliana; Nadotti, Maria (1988). Off screen: women and film in Italy. Routledge. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-415-00857-0. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey; Hay, James; Volpi, Gianni (1996). The companion to Italian cinema. Cassell. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-304-34197-9. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^ Bullaro, Grace Russo (2006). Man in disorder: the cinema of Lina Wertmüller in the 1970s. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-905886-39-5. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- Liehm, Mira (17 March 1986). Passion and defiance: film in Italy from 1942 to the present. University of California Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-520-05744-9. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
External links
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