![]() Marcello Mastroianni received his final of three Best Actor Oscar nominations for this, and he's wonderful as usual. The film is gorgeously photographed, and much attention is paid to costume and set design, as well as delicate color schemes. After many overtures toward a romance, the Russian wife flees back home, and the Italian follows her, ostensibly on business, but truly in hopes of sparking the romance further. The Italian tells his story in flashback, as we see him fight with his rich wife, which sends him to a health spa to recuperate, where he meets a bored, young and beautiful Russian woman who is herself unhappily married. This Russian-Italian co-production from 1987 finds two older men, one Italian, the other Russian, talking in the empty dining hall of a slow ocean liner. Reviewed by AlsExGal 7 / 10 well done international tale of romance His amazed and appreciative Russian listener then narrates a shorter story. He pursues her into the Russian heartland and returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife's opulent home to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman whose marriage is a horror. Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. ![]()
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