Valeria Marini Movies
- 2001
Noted Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura follows up on his 1999 opus Goya with this wild and woolly reimagining of a 1930s adventure serial from the mind of a surrealist master. The film opens in the present with an aged Luis Buñuel listening to a script pitch about the search for a magical table smuggled from the Ottoman empire to Spain several centuries ago. As the spiel plods on, Buñuel's mind drifts, imagining himself during his prime with his buddies Salvador Dali and Garcia Lorca. The trio search for the missing item of furniture through the winding alleys and sewers of Toledo. Along the way, the actors playing Buñuel, Dali, and Lorca reflect on playing the parts of great artists while engaging in witty banter with one another. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- El Gran Wyoming, Pere Arquillue, (more)
- 1998
Veteran talent Alberto Sordi, famed for his memorable performance in Federico Fellini's The White Sheik, has created a throwback to Italian comedies of the 1950s. Engineer Armando Andreoli (Sordi) is making a train trip from Rome to a Bologna conference. Beautiful blonde Federica (Valeria Marini) is a nurse who cares for elderly patients, but when she enters his private train compartment, the suspicious Armando thinks she might be a prostitute or thief. The notion persists when she follows him to the conference. Armando fails to find a hotel room for the night, so Federica says he can share her pensione bed. The following morning, her fiancé enters the room, misunderstands, and ends their engagement. Back in Rome, Federica and Armando become a twosome, despite his marriage and a 50-year difference in their ages. This film played at the 1998 Venice Film Festival as a tribute to Sordi. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alberto Sordi, Valeria Marini, (more)
- 1996
Fast-paced, funny and bursting with erotic joie-de-vivre, this outing from the always irreverent Catalan filmmaker Bigas Luna follows the lusty adventures of the bouncy Bambola and her peroxide-blond, gay brother Flavio. Their fun begins shortly after the death of their Mamma Greta, the owner of a ramshackle trattoria located beside the Po River on Italy's northern plains. Following the funeral, the two siblings decide to fix up the cafe, but first they need money. Their quest leads them to fatso financier Ugo. Barely able to control his lust for the buxom Bambola, he helps them, but when she starts batting eyes at the handsome swimmer Setimio (whom Flavio also desires), a tragedy ensues that results in Ugo's death and Setimio's incarceration. Brother and sister visit him in prison and one day, she attracts the attention of the beastly inmate Furio. Jealous of her relationship with Setimio, Furio orders him gang raped. The event is life changing for Setimio who suddenly looks at Flavio with new, wanting eyes. At the same time, Bambola goes to Furio's cell to engage in a fast, furious coupling that leaves her crazy for more. Upon his release, Furio heads for the trattoria to continue the affair. But trouble comes when Furio refuses to move the relationship beyond their beastly wrangling. He goes too far one night when he comes to bed with a live eel for Bambola to play with. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
