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A 35 year
old teacher is persuaded by his father to go to Bologna in the hope
he will find someone and produce grand-children. He goes to a dance
at an institute for the blind where he meets a beautiful blind
woman. Both their families are against the union, hers because he is
only a teacher, his because she is blind.
The relationship persists though he is worried at the prospect of an
operation which may return her sight and she will then reject him.
Reviews have been quite good though Lark Jarvis says he didn't find
the film compelling.
The description below is
copied from the NW Film Center web site.
"Winner of Italy’s David di Donatello Award (Oscar) for Best
Director, Avati’s nostalgic romantic comedy recounts the adventures
of Nello (Italian comedian Neri Marcorč) an awkward, 30-something
son sent from Rome to Bologna to find love. Still a virgin, Nello’s
womanizing father (Giancarlo Giannini) fears he will never have an
heir unless action is taken. Packing him off to the more liberal
Bologna under the guise of a teacher, the bookish Nello, after not
much luck, falls hard for the most beautiful woman in the city, the
charismatic Angela (Vanessa Incontrada), who happens to be blind.
Her blindness is somewhat of a mystery; his, of another kind, is
understandable, but no match for someone possessing a very clear
vision of what she wants. Perfectly capturing the tone of 1920s
Italian society with a classically romantic mix of pathos and humor,
Avati’s winning film charms."
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