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Alberto Sordi: Family
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Alberto Sordi’s performance as the somewhat bumbling husband brings humor to the family situation. Just when you think the story is winding down as his family adjusts to the long visit with in-laws, the next part begins, utilizing Alberto’s skill. He knows what has to be done, the “why” of it and the consequences. His village is depicted well and anyone who has traveled off the beaten track recognizes characters such as the quarreling neighbors or childhood friends who never grew up but live in perpetual adolescence.
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Synopsis: Mombelli (Alberto Sordi) is an elementary school teacher whose wife Ada (Claire Bloom) dreams of becoming wealthy. She talks him into quitting his job and investing all of their money in a shoe factory. The family and the business fall apart when Ada is killed in a car wreck, and the colorlessRead More
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Sordi manages a nearly impossible feat as an actor, giving what is essentially a comic character degrees of emotional complexity that bubble just beneath his extroversion. He creates a constant intertwining of thought and reaction. During the big introductory dinner between Nino's family and Marta, there are a few faux pas and jokey misunderstandings. And during the silences, you can see Nino watching everybody, assessing how big to make his charm in response to the collected awkwardness, affecting a more childish, less authoritative version of the managerial aplomb he uses on the machinists at work.
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Mafioso is still playing as light comedy when Sordi, out with his family in a boat, is summoned to the don by an unseen messenger. The cry reverberates from the rocks and thereafter a chasm opens in the chasm. Efficiency seems like child's play compared to the precisely planned plot in which Sordi becomes a cog.
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