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Bookmark this pageMaternale (1978)
Director: Giovanna Gagliardo
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From Time Out Film Guide
An affluent Italian family, an idyllic summer's day, a sumptuous villa, a destructive struggle for power between mother and daughter. Maternale is an intimate and - in its adherence to the unities of time, place and action - highly formalised exploration of 'female' themes: frustrated desires, mother-child rivalry, the regime of the domestic, manifested here in an almost sensual obsession with food. But despite Gagliardo's experimental intentions, it all seems curiously old-fashioned, with the luscious imagery, dreamlike mood, mannered mise en scène, and perhaps partly the 1960 setting, overlaying the film with the faded bloom of art cinema.Author: SJo
Cast & crew
Director: Giovanna Gagliardo
Cast: Carla Gravina, Anna Maria Gherardi, Marino Masè, Francesca Muzio, Benedetta Fantoli
Duration: 95 mins
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