La nonna Sabella
Dino Risi
Raffaele, a young engineer living in Naples, returns to Pollena, his native village, because his grandmother is dying. When he arrives, he realises that it was all a ploy orchestrated by her to introduce him to the daughter of a rich property owner. But the young woman is not interested and take the opportunity to get closer to his childhood sweetheart Lucia, who is much more attractive.
With : Tina Pica, Peppino De Filippo, Sylva Koscina, Renato Salvatori
Screenplay : Pasquale Festa Campanile
Image : Tonino DelliColli
Editing : Mario Serandrei
Music : Michelle Cozzoli
Screenplay : Pasquale Festa Campanile
Image : Tonino DelliColli
Editing : Mario Serandrei
Music : Michelle Cozzoli
Production : Silvio Clementelli (La Titanus)
Contact : La copie du film provient de l'Istituto Luce Cinecitta.
Contact : La copie du film provient de l'Istituto Luce Cinecitta.
In this comedy of manners, the plot around the grandmother soon becomes secondary giving way to the sketches of the other characters (particularly the loyal servant and her secret fiancé), each following efficiently on from the other. Although the film relies a great deal on the performance of Tina Pica, a Neapolitan actress Risi was very fond of (Pane, amore, e ... (Bread, Love and...), Il signo de Venus (The Sign of Venus)), as a tyrannical, manipulative and matriarchal grandmother, he nevertheless avoids a certain polemic against the rites of an old-fashioned mentality, which he developed here without any heaviness. This film is also an important ethnographic document since it explores the ruralness of the landscapes of this province of Naples, and is an accurate representation of Mediterranean culture at the time.