If you've been looking for a great story, beautifully told, watch this movie. Like many Italian films, it portrays truths that are absent the linear, "everything has to pay off" American cinema. The story drifts in and out of different epochs with clever transitions that would make David Lean jealous. The actors are uniformly excellent with special praise owed to the exquisite Galatea Ranzi.
This is a film that can be seen again and again and enjoyed each time for the new discoveries and pleasures that it brings.
This is a film that can be seen again and again and enjoyed each time for the new discoveries and pleasures that it brings.