The Good Soldier (1982 film)
1982 drama film
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The Good Soldier (Italian: Il buon soldato, French: Le Bon Soldat) is a 1982 Italian-French romantic drama film co-written and directed by Franco Brusati. It premiered at the 39th edition of the Venice Film Festival.
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Ennio De Concini
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| Directed by | Franco Brusati |
| Screenplay by | Franco Brusati Ennio De Concini |
| Produced by | Mario Gallo |
| Starring | Mariangela Melato |
| Cinematography | Romano Albani |
| Edited by | Roberto Perpignani |
| Music by | Maurizio Fabrizio |
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| Language | Italian |
Plot
Cast
- Mariangela Melato as Marta
- Gérard Darier as Tommaso
- Giampaolo De Angelis as Tommasino
- Bruno Zanin as Marco
- Carla Bizzarri as Aunt Adele
- Toni Barpi as Uncle Pietro
- Jean-François Balmer as the Lawyer
- Gérard Lartigau as Luca
- Siria Betti as Marta's Mother
- Carlo Monni as Giovanotto Torretta
- Clara Colosimo as Friend
- Diana Dei as Friend
Production
Release
The film had its world premiere at the 39th Venice International Film Festival, in the main competition section. Following its mixed reception, Brusati assembled a new, shorter cut of the film, which was released in Italian cinemas in February 1983.[2][3]
Reception
Corriere della Sera's film critic Giovanni Grazzini noted that while the Venice cut was marred by "the continuous oscillation between realism and surrealism [...] where images and voices were often way over-the-top", the new theatrical version "by cutting out some of the unpleasantness and giving the whole more compactness, [...] remedies to a good extent the failures of the screenplay".[4]
Paolo Mereghetti noted that even with the new cut the film remains "indefensible", characterized by "subtle conformism", "over-the-top grotesqueness", and a "discordant poetic tone".[5]
