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Clara Calamai
Giovanna Bragana
Massimo Girotti
Gino Costa
Dhia Cristiani
Anita
Elio Marcuzzo
The Spaniard
Vittorio Duse
Police Officer
Michele Riccardini
Don Remigio
Juan de Landa
Giuseppe Bragana
Michele Sakara
Il Bambino (uncredited)
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Review 1DiscussionA review by CinemaSerf
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Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Jan 19 2025
So much of this adaptation of James Cain's "Postman Always Rings Twice" novel depends on it's stunningly intimate, almost adulatory, photography and on that score this really does not disappoint. "Giovanna" (Clara Calamai) is trapped in a loveless marriage with the older, drunken and thuggish "Giuseppe" (Juan de Landa) when the drifter "Gino" (Massimo Girotti) happens by. He's a jack of all trades and they can use him to help around the place in return for his bed and board. Quite quickly, though, she makes it clear she'd prefer it were her bed, and the pair are soon scheming an end to her loat...
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English
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Keywords
- adultery
- based on novel or book
- italian
- italy
- disorientation
- province
- country house
- country life
- milieu
- holdings
- murder
- mechanic
- drifter
- older husband
- neo realism
- italian neo realism