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That would be some scary schoolgirl! Actually, how you could think

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In Reply to: Re: L'Eclisse: the third piece of the Antonioni trilogy. posted by Pepe Le Loco on September 28, 2005 at 22:05:01:

Vitti's heart is "hot" is beyond me. Neither is it in L'Av. Moreau's character in La Notte has that same disinterested, apathetic, "drifting" persona as well.
Now, regarding Vitti visually... yeah, that's nuclear fusion hot.

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Re: That would be some scary schoolgirl! Actually, how you could think - Pepe Le Loco 10:23:13 09/29/05 (0)
True indeed, but I was speaking not of Vitti's heart, but rather of Antonioni's.
The lush sentimental transports necessary to produce the kind of elaborately bleak and disconnected heroine that Vitti embodies in L'Eclisse, can be produced only by an exquisitely sensitive teenage idealism completely stoned on its own sexual passion.
And a certain inate sympathy for french stuff seems to help too.
Take a look at Goth culture for another expression of this same accute sentimentallity, which perhaps by coincidence is also often afflicted with francophilic impulses.
Vitti created quite a few memorable roles, most of them not known here - Victor Khomenko 06:00:58 09/29/05 (0)
One that I really love is the comedy role of Assunta Patane in La Ragazza con la Pistola, a 1968 film where she plays a Sicilian girl chasing her seducer.
It is a completely hilarious film in the best Italian humor tradition, and if you can get it - you will have a treat.
I have a soft spot for Monica...

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