Tag Archives: Lea Massari
Le monte-charge / Paris Pick-Up (1962) Marcel Bluwal, Robert Hossein, Lea Massari, Robert Dalban, Drama, Thriller
The action takes place in an old house ,the first floor of which is a big workshop. A dark , threatening house,where a service elevator (monte-charge) leads to the flat. Read More »
Proibito / Forbidden (1954) Mario Monicelli, Mel Ferrer, Amedeo Nazzari, Lea Massari, Drama
Il Colosso di Rodi / The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) Sergio Leone, Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Adventure, Drama, History
A Greek military hero named Darios visits his uncle in Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossus of Apollo to guard its harbor Read More »
La Course du lièvre à travers les champs / And Hope to Die (1972) René Clément, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Crime, Drama
The one that runs like the hare of French title is a Tony Cardot, young French pilot, who very unfortunately crashed his plane into a group of Gypsy children not far away from Montreal. Read More »
L’Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni, Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Drama, Mystery
A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean.
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Le souffle au coeur / Murmur of the Heart (1971) Louis Malle, Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Drama, Comedy
This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably shatter the self-esteem of a modern American adolescent: he gets drunk, he smokes, he has sex, he is smothered by his mother, he is ignored by his father, a priest makes a pass at him, he gets rheumatoid fever, etc. There’s enough scandalous behavior in this film to make 100 made-for-TV movies, and yet this is a very happy and oddly innocent tale.
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Le femme en bleu / The Woman in Blue (1973) Michel Deville, Michel Piccoli, Lea Massari, Michel Aumont, Comedy, Drama
Pierre, musician, lives in Paris. He is happy and has everything to be: an apartment, a nice job, a nice house, discs he listens passionately and Aurélie, a dear friend. One day, in a drugstore, he saw a young woman dressed all in blue. Contrary to his habits, it does not address and lets out. It does not happen then a day without it seeks it in Paris, in the streets, in shops, by car, on foot, day and night. He confides in Aurélie, it helps restore the beautiful stranger … Gradually, Peter discovers that he has a love Aurelie.
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Le soldatesse / The Camp Followers (1965) Valerio Zurlini, Anna Karina, Lea Massari, Marie Laforêt, Drama, War
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
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Il giardino delle delizie / Garden of Delights (1967) Silvano Agosti, Maurice Ronet, Ida Galli, Lea Massari, Drama
A ceremony. A wedding night. A hotel room. A leaking toilet. A man and a woman … and another woman. Memories surface, fears that arise. The first hours of marriage, the beginning of hell.
Charlo and Carla are on their honeymoon. She is three months pregnant. He, furious about his marriage of convenience, recalls the past and ponders on The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, dear to the Surrealists. While she is bleeding, he spends the night with a beautiful stranger…
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