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Io la conoscevo bene (I Knew Her Well)

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Io la conoscevo bene (I Knew Her Well)

  • 1965
  • Italy
  • Fiction
  • Italian
  • English
  • 115 mins
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Following the gorgeous, seemingly liberated Adriana (Divorce Italian Style’s Stefania Sandrelli) as she chases her dreams in the Rome of La dolce vita, I Knew Her Well is at once a delightful immersion in the popular music and style of Italy in the sixties and a biting critique of its sexual politics and the culture of celebrity. Over a series of intimate episodes, just about every one featuring a different man, a new hairstyle, and an outfit to match, the unsung Italian master Antonio Pietrangeli, working from a script he cowrote with Ettore Scola, composes a deft, seriocomic character study that never strays from its complicated central figure. I Knew Her Well is a thrilling rediscovery, by turns funny, tragic, and altogether jaw-dropping.

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Director
Antonio Pietrangeli
Writer
Antonio Pietrangeli, Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola
Producer
Turi Vasile, Luggi Waldleitner

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