Adua and Her Friends
Before turning to directing, famous filmmaker Ettore Scola (Ugly, Dirty and Bad) was a regular collaborator of Antonio Pietrangeli. Having started as a film critic and screenwriter (for Visconti), Scola remains relatively unknown to French-speaking audiences, despite belonging to the group of creators who truly flourished in social comedy and the comedy of manners in the 1950s and 1960s. A rare opportunity to discover the formidable charms of his work.
Adua works with three of her friends at a brothel. When a law forces them to close their business, they join forces and buy a country house to open a restaurant there. Nothing will be easy for these four women as they seek emancipation.
Antonio Pietrangeli
Antonio Pietrangeli was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was a major practitioner of the commedia all'italiana genre. He started in the film industry by writing movie reviews for Italian cinema magazines. As a screenwriter, he worked on films by Luchino Visconti, Alessandro Blasetti, and Roberto Rossellini. Pietrangeli's own directing debut was Empty Eyes in 1953. His career highlights include Adua and Her Friends (1960), a drama with Marcello Mastroianni and Simone Signoret, the supernatural comedy Ghosts of Rome (1961), again with Mastroianni, The Magnificent Cuckold (1964), a comedy of adultery starring Claudia Cardinale and Ugo Tognazzi, and the comedy-drama I Knew Her Well (1965) with Stefania Sandrelli. He won the Nastro d'argento for Best Director for I Knew Her Well.
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