A Night Full of Rain movie storyline. Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini star as two people from very different worlds who fall in love in A Night Full of Rain. When romantic Italian journalist Paolo (Giancarlo Giannini) rescues American photographer Lizzy (Candice Bergen) from a scuffle in an Italian village, his efforts at romance lead nowhere. But when the couple meet again in San Francisco, Paolo does succeed in wooing Lizzy. Now, can their love overcome the differences between the traditional Italian Communist and the modern, liberated American woman that threaten to tear the two apart?
A Night Full of Rain (Italian: La Fine del Mondo nel Nostro Solito Letto in una Notte Piena di Pioggia; literal English translation: The end of the world in our usual bed on a night full of rain) is an Italian American film directed by Lina Wertmüller and stars Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini.
Lina Wertmüller was nominated as best director at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival in 1978. The plot concerns a romantic and heart-breaking relationship between a chauvinist Italian journalist and a feminist American photographer. The film was shot in San Francisco and Rome and was the director’s first film with original dialogue in the English language.
Brief Review for A Night Full of Rain
Italian director Lina Wertmuller’s first English-language film is disappointing. Candice Bergen plays an American photographer married to Giancarlo Giannini, an Italian journalist with Communist sympathies. The story serves up Wertmuller’s typically lavish portions of sex and politics, while portraying a long night in the crumbling marriage of this odd couple.
The music is terrific, the cinematography breathtaking and Wertmuller’s energy is everywhere evident. But, aside from Giannini, the acting is strangely uneven, and in Bergen’s case just plain awful. The rumors of conflict on the set between the director and her beautiful star are confirmed by the final product.
A Night Full of Rain (1978)
Directed by: Lina Wertmüller
Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Candice Bergen, Michael Tucker, Mario Scarpetta, Lucio Amelio, Massimo Wertmüller, Anny Papa, Anne Byrne Hoffman, Flora Carabella, Anita Paltrinieri, Alice Colombo Oxman, Jill Eikenberry, Paola Ojetti, Enzo Vitale
Screenplay by: Lina Wertmüller
Cinematography by: Giuseppe Rotunno
Film Editing by: Franco Fraticelli
Costume Design by: Benito Persico
Art Direction by: Enrico Job
Makeup Department: Maria Costanzo, Michele Trimarchi
Music by: Roberto De Simone
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: January 17, 1978 (Italy), January 29, 1978 (New York City)
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