Daniela Silverio Movies
- 1985
Set at the end of the 1930s, this tale about three college students and their brush with a degenerate lifestyle is low on action and budget, but the dialogue and interactions of the protagonists keep interest piqued. One evening while college buddies Rino, Pieretto, and Oreste (Alessandro Fontana, Roberto Accornero, and Matteo Corvino) are traveling around the Turin hills on their usual excursions into philosophizing and just hanging out, they come across Poli (Urbano Barberini) an obviously wealthy young man, passed out behind the wheel of his top-of-the-line sports car. It turns out that Poli was once a friend of Oreste's, and from that moment onward, the three strike up an acquaintance with him. One thing leads to another, and when they spend a summer on his estate, they soon become uncomfortably acquainted with his dissolute lifestyle as well.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roberto Accornero, Matteo Corvino, (more)
In this interesting cinematic tour of a woman's memory (winner of the 1985 Cannes Camera d'Or Award), Marie (Daniela Silverio) is a young Venezuelan who has been living in France and returns back home to liquidate her late aunt Oriana's hacienda. As Marie moves at a slow pace through the rooms of the hacienda, closed doors to chambers of memory in her mind begin to open. She recalls her adolescence spent in this house with her reclusive aunt, a woman who never left the premises. As Marie begins to remember events from that era from the perspective of an adult, she realizes why her aunt shut herself away. Parents should be advised that incest is a part of this story. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Doris Wells, Daniela Silverio, (more)
- 1984
Based on La Separation des Races by C.F. Ramuz, this cinematic interpretation of two people bridging their opposite cultures is not able to capture the same depth of vision as its literary source. Two Swiss villages lie on each side of an Alpine mountain range that divides Italian Swiss communities from German Swiss communities on the other side. Their temperaments, language, history, culture, music, and even the dominant religion are different, so that when an Italian peasant kidnaps a German Swiss miss just before the snows fly -- when winter arrives, they will be cut off from the rest of the world -- there are loud voices raised on each side of the mountain. His own neighbors and friends are angry that he has sullied their honor, and the German Swiss community is understandably upset over the woman's abduction. As the abductee and abductor vacillate in their barely etched relationship, a lone and somewhat mystical peddler with the ability to cross the mountains in winter becomes the single link the opposite communities have with each other. If director Pierre Koralnik had placed more emphasis on the development of the relationship between the Italian peasant and the German Swiss woman, then the lack of a broader symbolism would have been irrelevant -- or vice-versa. But, in fact, neither are emphasized, neither developed, leaving only the plot to carry the story, and it is not strong enough to do that on its own. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pierre Clémenti, Daniela Silverio, (more)
- 1982
A divorced middle-aged Italian film director (Tomas Millian) is seeking meaning and love in both his life and his film. He becomes involved with an aristocratic woman, but trouble ensues when he begins to receive anonymous threats demanding that he abandon the relationship. When the woman mysteriously disappears, the director begins seeing an actress who works in experimental plays. She too leaves after telling him that she is carrying another man's child. In his quest for meaning, all the director manages to find is meaningless sex and lots of metaphors for isolation and abandonment: fog, open doors, empty landscapes. ~ John Voorhees, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, (more)
