'Tis Pity She's a Whore (film)

'Tis Pity She's a Whore
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Directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi[1]
Produced by Silvio Clementelli for Clesi Cinematografia[1]
Screenplay by Alfio Valdarnini
Carlo Carunchio
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi[1]
Based on 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
by John Ford[1]
Starring Charlotte Rampling
Oliver Tobias
Fabio Testi[1]
Music by Ennio Morricone[1]
Cinematography Vittorio Storaro[1]
Edited by Franco Arcalli
Production
company
Clesi Cinematografica
Distributed by Euro International Film[1]
Espectáculos Rivus
International Coproductions (USA, dubbed)
Release date
  • September 20, 1971 (1971-09-20) (Italy)
Running time
 140 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Addio fratello crudele (English: Goodbye Cruel Brother), also known as 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Peccato che sia una puttana, is a 1971 Italian romance-drama film co-written and directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and starring Charlotte Rampling, Oliver Tobias and Fabio Testi. It is based on the tragedy with the same name written by John Ford (1586 – c. 1639).[2][3][1] The music was composed by Ennio Morricone.[1]

Synopsis

In the city of Mantua, during the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni, the son of a propertied man, is sent to study abroad and he never meets his sister, Annabella, who is a couple of years younger than him. After ten years of separation, the now beautiful Annabella is reunited with her brother for the first time, as adolescents. The young siblings are immediately attracted and can not help to fall in love with each other. After struggling with their feelings for some time Giovanni and Annabella begin a secret relationship, and she becomes pregnant. Knowing that the world will condemn them, Giovanni leaves his father's villa, and Annabella accepts the marriage proposal of her suitor, the wealthy noble Soranzo. After Soranzo discovers that he has been the object of a deception, he makes plans for a bloody vengeance.

Cast

Release

The film was released in France under the title Dommage qu'elle soit une putain.[1]

Reception

Italian film critic Marco Giusti writes that Rampling undresses as much as she can, but that it is Fabio Testi's physique that is imposing: Always naked and often framed at the height of his buttocks, it is causing the spectators some embarassment.[1] Giusti perfectly remembers the sight of Testi's big hairy buttocks on the screen of the cinema Verdi in [[Genoa]].[1] However, Teo Mora "forced" Giusti and Enrico Ghezzi to stage it at the Teatro dell'Archivolto in Genoa.[1] Giusti acted as Soranzo, Testi's character; he hasn't done any theatre since.[1]

Bibliography

  • Giusti, Marco (1999). dizionario dei film italiani STRACULT [sic]. Cles: Sterling & Kupfer. ISBN 88-200-2919-7.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Giusti 1999, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  3. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.


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