Brizio Montinaro Movies
- 1989
For some reason, the enigmatic Xenia (Themis Bazaka) feels she must give birth to her child in the mountainous country of Andalusia in Southern Spain. As she travels to her rendezvous with birth, she hooks up with a young actor (Denis Podalides) on his way to an audition there. His car has broken down, and he has accepted a ride from her. The two converse about life, art, the light in the Mediterranean, etc. As they travel, Xenia begins to feel the first pangs of birth, and the young man learns how to care for another person. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Themis Bazaka, Denis Podalydès, (more)
- 1983
- PG
In this pseudo-farce, the heroine Mickey (Margot Kidder) takes two weeks off work to go to Malta and write a mystery novel and finds herself caught up in a series of real-life murders that she weaves into her progressing story. Caught between a parody, a children's film, and a who-dunnit, the overplayed Disney charm of Trenchcoat wears thin very quickly. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Margot Kidder, Robert Hays, (more)
- 1974
In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker. Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1970
- R
The Pizza Triangle is a freewheeling satire of Italian mores, hilarious despite its outwardly morbid plotline. The murder of flower girl Monica Vitti triggers a long flashback involving Vitti, middle-aged Communist bricklayer Marcello Mastrioanni, and young pizza chef Giancarlo Giannini. The married Mastrioanni falls in love with Vitti, but Giannini gets in the way. A fight results, after which the girl is hospitalized. Declaring a truce, the three lovers move in together, allowing Vitti tie to decide whom she loves best. The subsequent discord nearly results in the girl's suicide; she moves out and takes up with butcher Hercules Cortes, but returns to Gianinni when he attempts suicide. The now unemployed and unmarried Mastrioanni shows up, and when Vitti refuses again to commit herself to any one man, another fight results--this time ending in Vitti's death. Also released as A Drama of Jealousy and Jealousy Italian Style, The Pizza Triangle was originally shown in Italy as Dramma della Gelosia--Tutti i Particolari in Cronaca. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, (more)
- 1970
Busy actor Enrico Maria Salerno made his directorial debut with this predictable tearjerker using a cast better known to fans of Italian horror than to its target audience. Salerno's script, co-written with Giuseppe Berto, features genre veterans Tony Musante and Florinda Bolkan as an estranged couple reunited for a day. They wander around Venice reminiscing about the ups and downs of their marriage, wondering what drove them apart. As might be expected, their memories bring them back together, but the husband's terminal illness turns the sweet reunion into a mawkish Love Story clone. Stelvio Cipriani's overwrought score only compounds the film's soap-opera feel, but at least there are some lovely shots of Venice by cinematographer Marcello Gatto. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tony Musante, Florinda Bolkan, (more)
