Davide Manuli Movies
- 1993
Contenders is precisely what the two young Romanian immigrants in The Contenders are not. This doesn't stop them from giving their all in their attempts to find success in the U.S. In this story, the two men are roommates. They also have the same "day" job: they are dishwashers. Anton wants to be a moviemaker, but has pretensions which are well beyond his abilities. Ivo wants to be an actor, but has seemingly never bothered to do any formal study; he repeats a monologue from the movie On The Waterfront at all his auditions, with predictable results. Anton eventually gets some money to shoot an independent film, and immediately reneges on his promise to cast Ivo in the lead. Ivo, on the other hand, is smitten by the charms of a cute actress who, despite the unlikeliness of her being cast in anything at all, decrees that she will not do nude scenes. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Davide Manuli, Jon Polito, (more)
Previously filmed in 1935 with Ann Harding, Enchanted April, a romantic novel by Elizabeth, was remade in 1992. The first film skips along superficially at 66 minutes: the second, directed by the always intriguing Mike Newell, runs 101 minutes, allowing for richer characterizations and a bottomless reserve of brilliant dialogue. Two cloistered, married English women (Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson) impulsively rent an Italian villa and embark upon a vacation without their spouses. They are joined by two other ladies: the high-flown aging widow Joan Plowright, and elegant upper-crust beauty Polly Walker) whom they've never met. Under the spell of an exotic new location, the foursome are in for quite a few life-altering experiences, many of them amusing, and not a few very surprising. Impeccably accurate in its recreation of European manners and mores in the 1920s, Enchanted April is sheer bliss from fade-in to fade-out. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, (more)
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