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Soviet Director and Italian Star Triumph in Dark Eyes |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: Karen Jaehne |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1987 |
| Size: 961 Words, 5,545 Characters |
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Take a freewheeling adaptation of some of Anton Chekhov's short stories, a Soviet director - Nikita Mikhalkov - who revels in affectionate portrayals of pre-revolutionary Russia, and Italy's great international star Marcello Mastroianni and the result is Dark Eyes (Ocio Ciornie), the unqualified hit of this May's fortieth Cannes Film Festival.
It is easy to see why the festival jury's decision to give the Best Actor prize to Mastroianni was roundly acclaimed in a year when the audience responded with hostility to a number of other awards. Mastroianni played an aging, charming, thoroughly irresponsible idler who provokes a very genuine, deep passion from a proper Russian matron....
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...lways have. For me, le plus ca change, le plus c'est la meme chose."
Mikhalkov and his screenwriter Alexander Adabakhian expressly wrote their film for Mastroianni. The result - and the award at Cannes as well as the selection of Dark Eyes as the Opening Night film at the New York Film Festival on September 25 - clearly shows how perfectly attuned they were to a great actor's talents.vbcrlf
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