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A Special Day

Una giornata particolare

1977

Ettore Scola

Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd ...

7.9

6,704

Drama Set during one of the massive rallies which marked the visit of Adolf Hitler to Mussolini’s Rome in May 1938. The story revolves around Antonietta and Gabriele, neighbors in the same apartment complex but strangers until they meet accidentally. They are worlds apart but get to know each other during the course of the day when the rest of the building’s residents are at the rally. Despite some incomprehension a close friendship and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Funny, humane (...) Antonietta and Gabriele are never really a couple, but their brief encounter lights up the screen with the kind of radiance you get only from great movie actors who also are great stars."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Scola smothers his wistful love story (and it has its moments) under the dead weight of gratuitous politics, overly coy narrative tricks, and an ostentatious camera style."	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"The symbolism is heavy-handed and the dialogue drips with portentous pronouncements. As a melodrama it's passable, but as a parable about oppression and prejudice its failure is abject (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"'A Special Day' unfolds as a luminous, humanist two-hander, made more intriguing by Pasqualino De Santis’s consistently sepia-toned cinematography (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"The halting progress of their one-day stand (...) is beautifully delineated… which makes it all the more disappointing when the tender refuge they take in one another turns sexual."	NEU
United Kingdom	Paul Taylor Time Out	"It looks 'serious' (...) It sounds 'meaningful' (...) It boils down, however, to the worst kind of sentimental tosh"	NEG

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