Mara Venier Movies
- 1993
The title of this movie refers to a typical Neapolitan shell-game in which a package of valuable merchandise is switched for something worthless while a brief diversion is used as a cover. This comic anthology is a survival guide to the mad, sometimes joyful anarchy of this ill-managed town, told in ten separate episodes. In one of the funniest, a woman swindled out of her apartment by a phony medium successfully uses his own superstitious belief that there are real mediums somewhere to get her apartment back. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tommaso Bianco, Enzo Cannavale, (more)
- 1984
Geared to a teen and pre-teen audience, this juvenile romance is set in the last year of high school and involves the attraction between a beautiful newcomer (Isabella Ferrari) to the school, and an introverted, hard-working young student (Massimo Ciavarro), and between a plain woman (Orsetta Gregoretti) infatuated with the school's womanizer (Carlo Mucari), and the class joker (Mauro Di Francesco). Their stories play out as expected, against a backdrop of current hit songs and with a lot of frenetic acting. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mauro di Francesco, Isabella Ferrari, (more)
- 1982
In back-to-back stories that are unrelated to each other except through a few shared stabs at sexual and social morés, director Nanni Loy and the two featured stars (and co-writers) Renato Pozzetto and Nino Manfredi have fun with some "taboo" themes. In the first story, Don Emidio (Pozzetto) is actually a Catholic priest who suffers amnesia while on a train and ends up falling for an attractive Milanese woman (Mara Venier), leading to a joyful and uninhibited celebration of their romantic natures -- at least for several blissful days. In the second story, a widowed father is a brash construction worker whose favorite hobby is bragging about his son's great accomplishments as a soccer player. Dad's world is about to be jarred into another dimension when his macho son finally tells him about his true sexual orientation. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Renato Pozzetto, Mara Venier, (more)
- 1981
Matteo (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) and Serana (Mara Venier) are living together in Rome in the early 1970s, and each has their own colossal challenges to face. Matteo is a hard-drinking, melancholy leftist who wants more than anything to be a film director, and Serana is a kindergarten teacher who has been so traumatized from being raped at the age of seven that her sex life is a shambles. The film follows Matteo and Serana as they cross each hurdle to normalcy, revealing the effects their individual changes make on their relationship and on their life's objectives. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mara Venier, (more)
- 1972
This Italian tragedy chronicles the sad love affair between a military inductee and a young woman. The story is set in Italy, during 1938 when Mussolini was having all Jews exiled from Italy. Donatello loves Vernier. Trouble ensues when Vernier refuses to disclose her religious beliefs to the government. She eventually deliberately dives into the Arno River and drowns. The distraught fellow then learns from his mother, that his father, an opposition leader, was executed in prison. Despite the terrible tragedies surrounding him, the brave boy goes into the military. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
