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Dwarf Major 
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TITLE |
I
Don't Want to Talk About It (1993) |
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ALT__TITLE |
1. De eso no
se habla 2. Di questo non si parla |
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DIRECTOR |
Maria Luisa
Bemberg
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CAST |
Marcello
Mastroianni |
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NOTES |
In a small
seaside town in Argentina a widow has a baby girl |
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called
Charlotte who is a dwarf. As Charlotte grows up her |
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mother sees
that she gets a good, classical education but |
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erases any
images, books etc. which depict small people |
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(e.g. Snow
White and the 7 Dwarves). In fact she refuses to |
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accept her
daughter's condition and this attitude spreads to |
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the whole
community. When Charlotte is a young woman the |
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very
eligible local playboy, Ludovico, falls in love with her. He
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also
collects other small items like a minature monkey and |
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pony. Though
he does try to resist how he feels he says of |
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her she is
the only person he wholly accepts. After Charlotte |
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and Ludovico
are married a circus arrives |
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in town.
Charlotte's mother doesn't want her to see the circus. |
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Nothing can
stop her and she 'runs off' with the circus. At the |
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end Ludovico
appears to have drowned himself and the |
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mother has
shut herself away. A charming film with great |
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performances
especially from Mastroianni as Ludovico and |
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Podesta as
Charlotte. The director, Bemberg, says of |
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the film
"Charlotte is a metaphor for all of us who are in one |
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way or
another different from the flock. In that sense . . . She |
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could be any
independent spirit." |
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Notes
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