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Gold Rimmed Glasses (The)

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 110 mins

Original Title

Gli Occhiali d'oro
  • Director: Giuliano Montaldo
  • Writer: Nicola Badalucco; Giorgio Bassani
  • Producer: Guido De Laurentiis; Eric Heumann

CGiii Comment

Cinematically...it looks...stylish.

Directorially...it drags along, slower than a snail.

An inappropriate relationship between and old doctor and a young boxer - and, the inevitable scandal...plays out like a damp squib.

Disjointed and under-developed - style took precedence over flow and content.

It will leave you unaffected...with the subjects of Jewish persecution and homophobia - being left unaffected...is a failure on the part of the director.

Unforgivable.


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The(ir) Blurb...

This movie, based on a novel by Giorgio Bassani, plays in the high-day of Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Eraldo is a golden boy, a stunningly beautiful college student and boxer, popular and spoiled rotten by his mother. To keep living beyond his means he 'gratiously accepts' the generous, rarely returned favors of Dr. Fadigati, an elder, gay gentleman who tries to live his life morally despite the age, but cannot keep stand by as it leads to increasing violence, especially against Jews such as the brilliant student David Lattes and even a professor at Eraldo's North Italian university.

Cast & Characters

Philippe Noiret as Dr. Fadigati;
Rupert Everett as David Lattes;
Valeria Golino as Nora Treves;
Nicola Farron as Eraldo;
Stefania Sandrelli;
Roberto Herlitzka;
Riccardo Diana;
Anna Lezzi;
Giovanni Rubin De Cervin;
Lavinia Segurini;
Luca Zingaretti as Molon;
Ivana Despotovic;
Rade Markovic;
Maximiliano Czertok;
Arianna Felloni