DTT Channel 8 schedule usually good movies, in principle different from those offered, repeated a hundred times, other free and paid channels. This chain also has the healthy habit of double sessions include films of the same genre, detective, western, horror, comedy or drama, which engages the viewer programming cinephile sometimes until dawn. Will
some dates, Channel 8 Madrid had the, for me, pleasantly surprised, to issue two Italian movies followed: "Confidences" (1974) by Luchino Visconti and "The Girl with a Suitcase (1961) by Valerio Zurlini. Both are among my 'movies' favorite and is so happy to see me in the stillness of the night, which is the best time to see good cinema.
"Confidences" (Italian "Gruppo di famiglia in an internal") is the living testimony of Visconti, author of the original script and director, and then seriously ill. The quiet life of a mature and educated teacher who lives an old Roman palace, isolated from the world among his books and works of art, is severely disrupted by the arrival upstairs as tenants of a peculiar and rowdy "family", the principle unsettles habits of life of the protagonist, who, little by little, is accustomed to its existence even think to consider this group as the family he never had. My favorite scene in the movie is one that runs at night when young, Lietta, Stefano, Konrad, mounted a small orgy in the secret room of the teacher, while, as background music you hear the theme from "Il Silenzo" with the very personal voice Zanicchi Iva.
I love the interpretation of Silvana Mangano, fine, statuesque actress in her youth (Riso amaro, 1949), young Lina what was Marsini?, Including Helmut Berger, and upon all the Burt Lancaster, whose role smashing been allowed teacher in middle age to print a new twist to his career, far from the antics performed in his youth and ending his film career recognized as a great actor. Surely the political message of the film is already outdated, but the corruption of the bourgeoisie do not think it less today, in the Italy of Berlusconi, who in the heady 70's, but only by the melancholy that instills in all its sequences deserves the trouble to enjoy this masterpiece of cinema.
For "The Girl with a Suitcase" I recognize that I keep a special devotion. When I saw
in the 60's, would more or less the same age as its protagonist, Lorenzo Fainardi (played by Jacques Perrin) and me - and who is not! - I would have liked to "redeem" the beautiful showgirl Aida Zepponi, the paper discovered Claudia Cardinale and it would take to work then with the greats of Italian cinema. It seems, though we did not know until much later that the film was shown in Spain with severe mutilations of Francoist censorship - Aida was a single mother and her relationship with the young Lorenzo was more explicit in the original version, "yet they contributed positively or negatively to my sentimental education, and I think a whole generation of young viewers. My favorite sequence is, of course, one in which Aida, taking a bath in the family mansion of Fainardi after surprising because the bathrooms are down the stairs black and stately as an Egyptian princess among the strains of the "victory march" Aida.
some dates, Channel 8 Madrid had the, for me, pleasantly surprised, to issue two Italian movies followed: "Confidences" (1974) by Luchino Visconti and "The Girl with a Suitcase (1961) by Valerio Zurlini. Both are among my 'movies' favorite and is so happy to see me in the stillness of the night, which is the best time to see good cinema.
"Confidences" (Italian "Gruppo di famiglia in an internal") is the living testimony of Visconti, author of the original script and director, and then seriously ill. The quiet life of a mature and educated teacher who lives an old Roman palace, isolated from the world among his books and works of art, is severely disrupted by the arrival upstairs as tenants of a peculiar and rowdy "family", the principle unsettles habits of life of the protagonist, who, little by little, is accustomed to its existence even think to consider this group as the family he never had. My favorite scene in the movie is one that runs at night when young, Lietta, Stefano, Konrad, mounted a small orgy in the secret room of the teacher, while, as background music you hear the theme from "Il Silenzo" with the very personal voice Zanicchi Iva. I love the interpretation of Silvana Mangano, fine, statuesque actress in her youth (Riso amaro, 1949), young Lina what was Marsini?, Including Helmut Berger, and upon all the Burt Lancaster, whose role smashing been allowed teacher in middle age to print a new twist to his career, far from the antics performed in his youth and ending his film career recognized as a great actor. Surely the political message of the film is already outdated, but the corruption of the bourgeoisie do not think it less today, in the Italy of Berlusconi, who in the heady 70's, but only by the melancholy that instills in all its sequences deserves the trouble to enjoy this masterpiece of cinema.
For "The Girl with a Suitcase" I recognize that I keep a special devotion. When I saw
in the 60's, would more or less the same age as its protagonist, Lorenzo Fainardi (played by Jacques Perrin) and me - and who is not! - I would have liked to "redeem" the beautiful showgirl Aida Zepponi, the paper discovered Claudia Cardinale and it would take to work then with the greats of Italian cinema. It seems, though we did not know until much later that the film was shown in Spain with severe mutilations of Francoist censorship - Aida was a single mother and her relationship with the young Lorenzo was more explicit in the original version, "yet they contributed positively or negatively to my sentimental education, and I think a whole generation of young viewers. My favorite sequence is, of course, one in which Aida, taking a bath in the family mansion of Fainardi after surprising because the bathrooms are down the stairs black and stately as an Egyptian princess among the strains of the "victory march" Aida. 
© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
November, 2009
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