Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 2 nominations
- Alice Stendhal
- (as Veronique Vendell)
- Man in the Caravan
- (as Renato Terra Caizzi)
- The Owner of Hairdresser's
- (as Cesare Miceli Picardi)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn 2008, the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved (100 film italiani da salvare). The list was created with the aim to report "100 films that have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978". The project was established by the Venice Days ("Giornate degli Autori") in the Venice Film Festival, in collaboration with Cinecittà Holding and with the support of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
- Quotes
The Writer: She was like a lot of other girls.
Adriana Astarelli: I bet you slept with her.
The Writer: It's not that hard with girls like that.
Adriana Astarelli: I can tell she liked you.
The Writer: Liked me? Trouble is, she likes everything. She's always happy. She desires nothing, envies no one, is curious about nothing. You can't surprise her. She doesn't notice the humiliations, though they happen to her every day. It all rolls off her back like some waterproof material. Zero ambition. No moral code. Not even a whore's love of money.
Adriana Astarelli: Such language!
The Writer: Yesterday and tomorrow don't exist for her. Even living for today would mean too much planning, so she lives for the moment. Sunbathing, listening to records, and dancing are her sole activities. The rest of the time she's mercurial and capricious, always needing brief new encounters with anyone at all... just never with herself.
Adriana Astarelli: I'm Milena, right? Is that what I'm like? Some sort of dimwit?
The Writer: On the contrary. You may be the wisest of all.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana (2015)
- SoundtracksEclisse Twist
Written by Giovanni Fusco and Michelangelo Antonioni (as Ammonio)
Performed by Mina
Courtesy of Edizioni Musicali C.A.M.
This is more of a character study than a plot-driven narrative. It's also a critique on the exploitation of women. Sandrelli is very good as the beautiful Adriana, who's not so much ambitious as bored with her life. She's shallow in that way that beautiful young women can be when they don't have to exert much effort to move in social circles. However, she's also used by virtually everyone she meets, either for profit or pleasure, and Adriana is usually left alone and in the same place as where she started. Adriana's desire for change is also exhibited in her hairstyles - she sports more than a half dozen throughout the film.
Director Pietrangeli also makes the audience complicit in the exploitation of Adriana, with camera "ogling" like her much as her many suitors do. From what I've read, this film is also well-liked in Italy for the many mid-60's pop music hits heard on the soundtrack. Recommended.
- AlsExGal
- Jan 27, 2023
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Dobro sam je poznavao
- Filming locations
- Piazza del Duomo, Orvieto, Terni, Umbria, Italy(Orvieto Cathedral)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $18,010
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,312
- Feb 7, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $18,010
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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