Il bell'Antonio (1960)
- Directed by
- Mauro Bolognini
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 109 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A handsome man returns to his Sicilian hometown and marries a beautiful woman. He struggles with an unexpected inability to consummate the marriage, which creates a crisis for him and his family in a society that values virility.
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What happens
Il bell'Antonio ("Handsome Antonio") is a 1960 Italian-French drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale. It is based on the novel of the same name by Vitaliano Brancati and was adapted for the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gino Visentini, moving the novel's setting during Italy's fascist era to the present. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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