The Valerio Zurlini Box Set: The Early Masterpieces
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Sales Rank: 17599
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0882853002895
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Noshame
Manufacturer: Noshame
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Noshame
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Running Time: 224 minutes
Sales Rank: 17599
Studio: Noshame
Theatrical Release Date: September 11, 1961
Editorial Review:Description:This deluxe 2-DVD collector’s edition from NoShame Films offers a pair of early works by Valerio Zurlini, one of the great unsung maestri of Italian cinema. War-torn Italy is the setting for VIOLENT SUMMER. In the final days of Mussolini’s reign, Carlo (Jean-Louis Trintignant, THE DESERT OF THE TARTARS), the hedonistic son of a high-ranking Fascist (Enrico Maria Salerno, THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE) falls in love with a Navy officer’s widow (Eleonora Rossi Drago). Fleeing the wrath of the Anti-Fascists for the safety of Southern Italy, the lovers are stranded by the masses of the dead and dying and must confront for the first time the horrors of war previously kept from them by a life of privilege. In GIRL WITH A SUITCASE, 16-year-old Lorenzo (THE DESERT OF THE TARTARS’ Jacques Perrin) falls in love with cabaret singer Aida (Claudia Cardinale), spurned by his playboy brother Marcello (Corrado Pani, SECRETS OF A CALL GIRL). Secreting the sensuous Aida in a hotel and going into debt to feed and clothe her, Lorenzo can only stand by as Aida attracts a stream of new suitors and learns the hard truth that sometimes pure love is not enough.
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preferable version
This film is available on dvd from various publishers. Of the three I have seen, this version is preferable, as it contains two scenes that are absent in the other versions.
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Impressive Italian masterworks
No Shame is a recent label which has sought to bring Italian classics to the DVD format. These two films, "Violent Summer" and "Girl With a Suitcase", are two of the finest films made by the director Valerio Zurlini, and the transfers are crisp, with good English subtitles. The films are fascinating as studies of young men involved in complex situations, in the former, trying to discern the proper political action during the Fascist regime, in the latter, trying to help a girl abandoned by his older brother. These films are distinguished by exceptional performances and by lovely compositions. For those who enjoy Italian cinema, No Shame has been a wonderful addition to the DVD universe, and this is one of their best packages.
