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Special Day (A)
Original Title
Una Giornata Particolare- Director: Ettore Scola
- Writer: Maurizio Costanzo; Ruggero Maccari
- Producer: Carlo Ponti
CGiii Comment
Beautifully composed...
The sad, the lonely, the tired, the desperate, the beaten...finding shoulders to cry upon, vacant ears for redundant words.
The muted colour and the snail's pace lend perfectly to the character arcs of municipal architecture.
An astonishing film...with astonishing performances.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the meeting between Mussolini and Hitler in Rome. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her mysterious neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, Loren and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life.
Cast & Characters
Sophia Loren as Antonietta;
Marcello Mastroianni as Gabriele;
John Vernon as Emanuele, the husband of Antonietta;
Françoise Berd as Caretaker;
Patrizia Basso as Romana;
Tiziano De Persio as Arnaldo;
Maurizio Di Paolantonio as Fabio;
Antonio Garibaldi as Littorio;
Vittorio Guerrieri as Umberto;
Alessandra Mussolini as Maria Luisa;
Nicole Magny as Officer's Daughter;
Adolf Hitler as Himself;
Benito Mussolini as Himself;
Maurizio Costanzo;
Ruggero Maccari