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torio “serio”, Joan Fontaine<br />

e Joseph Cotten<br />

passiamo a men-<br />

in una scena<br />

di “Accadde<br />

zionare due tra i in settembre”.<br />

set più autorevo- Joan Fontaine<br />

and Joseph Cotton<br />

li che abbiano<br />

in September Affair.<br />

mai posato macchine<br />

da presa e tutto l’armamentario<br />

del cinema sull’isola. Il primo è quello<br />

de Il disprezzo (Le mépris, 1963) diretto<br />

nientemeno che da Jean-Luc Godard,<br />

uomo di punta insieme a Truffaut<br />

del fenomeno dapprima critico e<br />

successivamente realizzativo passato a<br />

notorietà pla<strong>net</strong>aria con il nome di<br />

Nouvelle Vague, e interpretato da un<br />

cast che affianca Michel Piccoli, Jack<br />

Palance e Fritz Lang alla leggendaria<br />

Brigitte Bardot, la cui bellezza avrà<br />

forse, chissà, offuscato per un attimo<br />

agli occhi di qualcuno quella di <strong>Capri</strong><br />

stessa. Storia di amore, tradimento e<br />

morte, il film è tratto dall’omonimo<br />

romanzo di Alberto Moravia, origine<br />

letteraria che lo accomuna a La pelle<br />

(1981), tratto dal notevole lavoro di<br />

Curzio Malaparte che fu, nella riduzione<br />

cinematografica di Liliana Ca-<br />

24<br />

in different periods and with different outcomes,<br />

the beauty of the island and the holiday<br />

atmosphere are the backdrop for love affairs and<br />

brief flirtations. This is the case with Avventura a<br />

<strong>Capri</strong> (Adventure on <strong>Capri</strong>) (1958), directed by<br />

Giuseppe Lipartiti and starring Maurizio Arena,<br />

Alessandra Panaro, Nino Taranto and Leopoldo<br />

Trieste. Here two couples who have met on the<br />

island experience a series of misadventures<br />

before finally getting back together and pledging<br />

eternal love.<br />

In the same vein is a film made eleven years<br />

earlier, L’isola del sogno - amori e canzoni (The<br />

Island of Dreams – Love and Song), directed by<br />

Ernesto Remani and featuring Carlo Campanini,<br />

Clelia Matania and Silvana Jachino. The storyline<br />

is slightly different – Gianni is a singer, and<br />

Giorgio composes music, and together they have<br />

come to <strong>Capri</strong> to find peace and quiet in order to<br />

work on the script of a musical. What they have<br />

not reckoned with is the atmosphere of the island<br />

– the atmosphere of dreams explicitly referred to<br />

vani, un altro tra gli approdi cinema-<br />

in the title. Gianni and Giorgio meet two beautiful<br />

tografici “per eccellenza” in terra ca- girls, and their plans to work go up in smoke.<br />

As far as <strong>Capri</strong> is concerned, the art of summer<br />

prese anche grazie alla presenza di affairs and beach Don Juans, bathed in the<br />

playful and essentially prudish atmosphere of<br />

Marcello Mastroianni, Burt Lancaster<br />

seaside Italy (at least as it was portrayed in the<br />

e Claudia Cardinale, altra bellezza tra movies) was captured perfectly by Vittorio<br />

<strong>Capri</strong>oli in his 1962 film Leoni al sole (Lions in<br />

le innumerevoli che nel corso degli the Sun), starring the director himself together<br />

anni sono sbarcate sull’isola.<br />

with Carlo Giuffrè, Philippe Leroy and the<br />

wonderful Franca Valeri. A whole series of<br />

Di bellezza in bellezza, non poteva episodes paints a cheerful picture of the<br />

characteristics of these holiday Romeos.<br />

mancare Sophia Loren, le cui coordi-<br />

In Il mare (The Sea), directed in 1963 by<br />

nate geografiche e culturali, tra l’al- Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and starring Umberto<br />

Orsini, Francoise Prévost and Dino Mele, there is<br />

tro, prendono le mosse poco distante no holiday atmosphere – the film is set in winter.<br />

It does deal with love, but in keeping with the<br />

dalla baia di Napoli. E proprio così,<br />

season there is no seaside lightheartedness. It<br />

La baia di Napoli (It Started in Na- tells the story of the tormented relationship<br />

between two men and a woman, with the<br />

ples, diretto nel 1960 da Melville Sha- incessant movement of the sea as a counterpoint<br />

velson) si chiama il film che la vide to the wave-like progress of their passions.<br />

Since we’re now in “serious movie” terrain, we<br />

protagonista al fianco di due calibri might mention two of the most prestigious films<br />

shot on the island. The first is Le Mépris<br />

quali Clark Gable e Vittorio De Sica.<br />

(Contempt, 1963), directed by none other than<br />

Vi si narra di un avvocato americano Jean Luc Godard, the main exponent together<br />

with Truffaut of the movement that achieved<br />

giunto in Italia per sistemare le vicen- critical acclaim and then worldwide fame under<br />

the name Nouvelle Vague, and starring Michel<br />

de ereditarie del figliolo di un suo fra-<br />

Piccoli, Jack Palance and Fritz Lang together with<br />

tello morto in un incidente d’auto. Il the legendary Brigitte Bardot, whose beauty might<br />

even have dimmed that of <strong>Capri</strong> itself. A story of<br />

piccolo vive con una zia alla quale è love, betrayal and death, the film is based on the<br />

novel by Alberto Moravia. This literary origin is<br />

molto affezionato (Sophia Loren).<br />

shared by La Pelle (The Skin, 1981), based on<br />

Non è difficile immaginare la fine, ma the celebrated novel by Curzio Malaparte. The<br />

film version directed by Liliana Cavani is another<br />

il film vale senz’altro una (ri)visione. of the great films made on the island, thanks to a<br />

Così come può valerla, non fosse che fine cast including Marcello Mastroianni, Burt<br />

Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale, another of<br />

per uno sguardo a freddo su un fe- the many beautiful women who have landed ▼<br />

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