The conclusion of his “young love” trilogy, Due soldi di speranza found writer-director Renato Castellani sharing the top prize at Cannes with Orson Welles’s Othello. (Ettore Maria Margadonna and Titina De Filippo collaborated with him on the film’s story and screenplay.) Italy’s critics named Castellani the year’s best filmmaker while also adjudging the script that […]
Daily Archives: July 11, 2012
A young child, prohibited from royal court painting because she is a girl in the eighteenth century, substitutes her accomplished work for her brother’s inept work to protect him; but his disastrous showing at an official performance, which drives him to commit suicide, requires that she “become” him to save the family honor. Spurred by […]
Dennis Grunes 