Mais um filme essencial na filmografia de Scola, "Um dia muito especial" configura-se completo como um conto que se lê 'em uma sentada'. A dupla Mastroianni-Loren vive uma relação atípica durante um dia de suas vidas - exatamente quando Hitler vai a Itália! O uso da transmissão radiofônica da visita como trilha sonora cria um contraponto 'histórico' e crítico diante de um amor impossível de se realizar plenamente.
A beautiful portrait of the relationship between an oppressed woman and a homossexual, on the day that Hitler visited Mussolini. I love to watch this touching and inspirational masterpiece.
I must see this masterpiece again! It's absolutely subtle. Tonight, i'm gonna replay it as a gift for myself.
Ettore Scola is never better than when he tells us a simple story with a political background noise. In UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE, during almost the whole movie, we hear the Italian radio describing the manifestations of the encounter between Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in 1938 in Rome. A masterpiece to rediscover. Yes.
why I think Anna Magnani would be a better choice, though she's going to look a bit older.
This film was set in the 1931 building Palazzo Federici in via XXI Aprile, Rome by architect Mario de Renzi, which is a great example of the architectural movements in Italy at the time. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mluisa/448808833 http://www.flickr.com/photos/51506760@N00/1734570126