Jealousy in Italian

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Movie
German title Jealousy in Italian
Original title Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca)
Country of production Italy , Spain
original language Italian
Publishing year 1970
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ettore Scola
script Agenore Incrocci
Furio Scarpelli
Ettore Scola
production Pio Angeletti
Adriano De Micheli
music Armando Trovajoli
camera Carlo Di Palma
cut Alberto Gallitti
occupation

Jealousy in Italian (original title: Dramma della gelosia ) is an Italian triangular comedy with melodramatic and black humor undertones, made in 1970. Monica Vitti , Marcello Mastroianni and Giancarlo Giannini play under the direction of Ettore Scola . Mastroianni received the award for best male role at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival .

action

The film is set in Rome and begins with a framework story in which the simple, 45-year-old bricklayer Oreste is on trial. He attacked a newly married couple: killed the florist Adelaide with scissors and injured the pizza maker Nello. A long flashback tells how it came about. Oreste lived a monotonous life in poor conditions with a much older woman and her children from his first marriage. One day he got to know Adelaide, fell for her and left his previous partner. With Adelaide he lived in seventh heaven for a while.

Oreste's relationship with Adelaide made him forget everything around him. He no longer listened to the evening discussions in the Communist Party of which he is a member. He met Nello at a demonstration. After introducing Nello to his girlfriend, Adelaide and Oreste's new boyfriend began a relationship behind his back. After a while, he saw through her cover-up maneuvers. After a violent argument and injuries, the three tried a ménage à trois . But that didn't work either. The men gave Adelaide a choice between them. Because she could not make up her mind, she first attempted suicide, then she took refuge in a relationship with a rich but crude manufacturer of meat products. She wasn't really happy with it. After Nello's attempted suicide, she returned to him and they married. Oreste, eaten away with jealousy, became a ragged, unemployed vagabond. He ran into the couple when they were about to go on a honeymoon. It came to the fateful attack, for which Oreste is now receiving a reduced prison sentence of five years due to reduced sanity.

Scola's intention

Ettore Scola explained that with this film he wanted to investigate how the messages of consumer advertising, television, photo novels and comics, all of which he considered "bourgeois", are received and imitated by the lower classes. In Marxist diction, he said: “The exploited classes renounce their own traditions, their own culture.” As a substitute, they adopt a bourgeois subculture.

Reviews

In Il Messaggero di Roma , a reviewer wrote: "The perfectly coordinated direction and the extremely accurate staging, not only in terms of the lively dialogues, but also in terms of the psychological contrasts, is an excellent theatrical performance." The film-dienst said , Scola left the actors “to their comedic temperament and achieved brilliantly characterized types”. The criticism found praise for Mastroianni, but less for the film as a whole, which only wants to entertain, instead of showing social "faults". The individual scenes are brilliant in themselves, but are not held together by any overarching plot: “You have your fun, which suddenly fizzles out.” For Positif , the “angry satire”, the “bitter and farcical time picture” was a “brilliant piece of cinema” impulsive characters, natural dialogues and images, and an original narrative. But the comedy will not be able to please the "serious" critics because it tends to entertain the market.

Vermilye (1994) said that Mastroianni held the story together as a lively but headless figure, Vitti played brilliantly, and Giannini wore a deplorable expression. Scola does not always manage to tell the plot fluently, but with cunning parody and angry shrewdness. In the guide of the film , Jean Tulard (2005) praised the humor that grows out of everyday scenes, an ironic look and the excessiveness of the characters, which would be given by three extraordinary actors. The evangelical film observer also has a predominantly positive opinion of the work : "A poppy, brightly colored, satirical freak, without great intellectual ambition, but played with nuanced by Monica Vitti and Marcello Mastroianni."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ettore Scola in a conversation from 1976, printed in: Jean A Gili: Ettore Scola. Une pensée graphique . Isthme éditions, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-35409-015-9 , pp. 77-78
  2. ↑ Il Messaggero di Roma , quoted in in: Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf, Willy Loderhose (eds.): The large film lexicon. All top films from A-Z . Second edition, revised and expanded new edition. Volume II (D-G). Verlagsgruppe Milchstraße, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89324-126-4 , p. 734 .
  3. ^ Film dienst no. 2/1971, drawn by "eh": Jealousy in Italian
  4. ↑ Michel Ciment: Dramma della gelosia (Drame de la jalousie) . In: Positif , No. 7/1970, pp. 5-6
  5. ↑ Jerry Vermilye: Great Italian films . Carol Publishing Group, New York 1994. ISBN 0-8065-1480-9 , pp. 199-201
  6. ↑ Jean Tulard: Drame de la jalousie . In: Jean Tulard (Ed.): Guide des films , Volume A – E. Laffont, Paris 2005. ISBN 2-221-10451-X , p. 1031
  7. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 492/1970