Véronique Vendell
- Alice Stendhalas Alice Stendhal
- (as Veronique Vendell)
Renato Terra
- Man in the caravanas Man in the caravan
- (as Renato Terra Caizzi)
Cesarino Miceli Picardi
- The Owner of Hairdresser'sas The Owner of Hairdresser's
- (as Cesare Miceli Picardi)
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
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Languid Handling of Sensational Subject Matter
Director Antonio Pietrangeli handles traditionally lurid & tragic subject matter in a curiously detatched and episodic fashion devoid of the incisive elegance brought by Fellini to superficially similar content in 'La Dolce Vita'; although his excessive use of zooms and pans does rather tend to undermine cameraman Armando Nannuzzi's otherwise attractive visuals and vivid use of Rome locations.
A remarkable number of familiar faces (often considerably younger than we're used to seeing them) flit in and out of the action to uncertain purpose, and much of the film seems a pretext for various splashy party sequences in which desperation habitually seethes just below the surface; paving the way for a drama queen exit for heroine Stefania Sandrelli she scarcely seems to merit.
A remarkable number of familiar faces (often considerably younger than we're used to seeing them) flit in and out of the action to uncertain purpose, and much of the film seems a pretext for various splashy party sequences in which desperation habitually seethes just below the surface; paving the way for a drama queen exit for heroine Stefania Sandrelli she scarcely seems to merit.
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- richardchatten
- Aug 15, 2019
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