Giorgio Albertazzi Movies
- 2001
Two men share a life-changing experience that they can't fully explain in this drama. Struggling musician Marco (Marco Bonini) and handicapped Claudio (Claudio Guain) both have a brush with death when Claudio's wheelchair becomes caught on a railroad track and Marco tries to free Claudio before he's crushed by an oncoming train. Just when it seems that they'll both be killed, the train is halted by a mysterious, otherworldly force that takes the form of a humanoid which gives off a bright light. When Marco tries to explain to the police what happened, they display an expected skepticism, and Claudio tries to pretend the incident never occurred, but both are very different men after their encounter. Marco suddenly becomes a success as a rock musician, but despite gaining fame and wealth, he continues to search for answers about what he's seen. Claudio, meanwhile, finds himself sharing a home with Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), his niece. Claudio and Giovanna begin researching reports of UFO sightings, while Giovanna also becomes friendly with an elderly professor of philosophy (Giorgio Albertazzi), who shares an interest in the supernatural. Tutta La Conoscenza Del Mondo was the first feature film for director and screenwriter Eros Puglielli, who first made a name for himself directing music videos. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Giovanna Mezzogiorno
- 1994
In this Italian comedy, eight lifelong friends attending their annual dinner party/reunion must re-evaluate their lives after they read a provocative letter from a group member who recently died. All of the remaining eight are retired. The letter suggests they all move into an empty convent and live the rest of their lives together. Though the eight seem outwardly comfortable and happy, the proposition becomes more enticing. As the evening wears on their truths are revealed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Giorgio Albertazzi, Paolo Bonacelli, (more)
- 1975
This actioner centers on the deadly, international game of intrigue played between a drug agent and a drug czar. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1974
Fifteen years before achieving cult status with the ludicrous giallo thriller Arabella, l'Angela Nero, director Stelvio Massi explored the genre in this far more conventional (though uncharacteristically misogynistic and gruesome) Italian-French co-production. Francis Matthews stars as Giorgio Pisani, a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead. The baby isn't his, Giorgio learns from his doctor friend Lydia Franzi (Pascale Rivault), as he is quite sterile. Giorgio and Lydia soon become lovers, and she narrowly escapes the brutal hands of the murderer (or murderers) who claims several other victims in shockingly violent fashion. Vincenzo Mannino and Gianfranco Clerici, who co-wrote the screenplay with Roberto Gianviti, place the focus on distinctly sexual violence, with the same graphic breast and genital mutilation which would make their collaboration on Lucio Fulci's 1982 giallo Lo Squartatore di New York among the most notoriously excessive films of the genre. The presentation of the murders is more muted here, as Massi and cinematographer Sergio Rubini attempt to make this thriller more stylish than gory. Giorgio Gaslini (Profondo Rosso) composed the score, and the cast includesRenato Rossini (aka Howard Ross), Carla Mancini, Lorenzo Piani, and a young Ilona Staller, who would later became Italy's most famous adult film star under the name "Cicciolina," as well as winning a seat in the Italian Parliament. Available versions run between 89 and 95 minutes. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
This film is Joseph Losey's mood piece that delves into the psychological makeup of Frank Jackson (Alain Delon), the assassin of exiled Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton). The tale chronicles the final few months of Trotsky's life, from the May 1940 raid upon Trotsky's Mexican compound until August of that year when Jackson's assassination attempt succeeded. Much of the film details how the shy and mysterious Jackson gained access to the compound through ingratiating himself with family friend Sylvia Ageloff (Romy Schneider). The reclusive Trotsky, seeing a part of himself in Jackson, begins to warm up to him, never realizing that Jackson will be the man to finally kill him. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Burton, Alain Delon, (more)
- 1970
Norbert (Peter Chatel) is the young archaeologist who falls in love with the ancient statue of a woman discovered in Florence. One day he believes he sees the reincarnation of the woman in Pompei. He runs after the woman (Laura Antonelli) and tries to talk to her in ancient Greek and Latin, but he finds her to be a bimbo. Soon he is visited by a psychiatrist friend (Giorgio Albertazzi) who tries to uncover the reason for Norbert's obsession. Uneven flashbacks show the girl dying in the volcanic eruption that destroyed ancient Pompei. Soon Norbert and the woman attend a play and fall for each other. The two discover that they might have known each other as children. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Chatel, Laura Antonelli, (more)
Joseph Losey's turbulent melodrama concerns a phony writer, Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), who has recently sold the film rights to his autobiography as a Welsh coal miner (actually penned by his deceased brother). Tyvian is engaged to Francesca (Virna Lisi), an alluring screenwriter, but then Eva (Jeanne Moreau) walks into his life. Eva and her lover had sought shelter from a thunderstorm in his apartment and Tyvian is immediately attracted to her. He follows her to Rome, where Eva demands an elaborate hotel suite, tons of gambling money, and a bonus for sexual favors. When Tyvian assents in gratifying her wishes, Eva just laughs at him. Tyvian then has to rush back to Francesca, since they are going to be married. But Tyvian forsakes her on their honeymoon and takes up with Eva again. Finding Tyvian and Eva together, Francesca is heartbroken and she commits suicide. After the funeral, Tyvian sets his sights on killing Eva, but, when he sees her, he finds that he is still obsessed with her. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, (more)
A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a riddle of seduction, a mercurial enigma darting between a present and past which may not even exist, let alone converge. The film stars Giorgio Albertazzi as an unnamed sophisticate attempting to convince a similarly nameless woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they met and were romantically involved a year ago in the same enormous, baroque European hotel. In the end, it hardly matters -- they're not characters so much as pawns anyway. Hypnotically dreamlike, Last Year at Marienbad is a surrealist parody of Hollywood melodrama, a high-fashion romance with a dark, alien underbelly. According to screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, the movie is a pure construction, without a frame of reference outside of its own existence -- the lives of its characters begin when the lights go down, and conclude when they come back up. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, (more)
- 1960
An attorney and his amorous daughters provide the focus of this drama. The story begins as the lawyer begins searching for his lost teenage daughter and learns that she has run away with an older man. He and his daughter's friend take off after the fugitive lovers. Along the way, the lawyer and the young girl become lovers themselves. Eventually, they discover that she has dumped the older man for a lover her own age; they then find her in bed with said lover and drag her home. There they discover that the lawyer's other daughter too is involved with a much-older man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gabriele Ferzetti, Jean Valerie, (more)
