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- +'''''A Night Full of Rain''''' ({{lang-it|'''La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia'''}}; literal English translation: ''The end of the world in our usual bed on a night full of rain'') is an Italian American film directed by [[Lina Wertmüller]] and stars [[Candice Bergen]] and [[Giancarlo Giannini]].<
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-According to [[Peter Bondanella]], "Wertmüller's work combined a concern with topical political issues and the conventions of traditional Italian grotesque comedy".+
-==Film career==+
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-=== 1960s ===+
-After her years spent touring with an avant-garde puppet group, Wertmüller set her sights on film. In the early 1960s, [[Flora Carabella]], a school friend, introduced Wertmüller to her husband, the famous Italian actor [[Marcello Mastroianni]], who in turn introduced to the auteur [[Federico Fellini]] who would become her mentor.+
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-Although ''The Basilisks'', which was scored by [[Ennio Morricone]], was critically well received, it did not garner the sort of attention that her later works would.+
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-Throughout the 1960s, Wertmüller produced a series of films that were well liked but that failed to garner international success. Of these films, her first collaboration with [[Giancarlo Giannini]] occurred in 1966's musical comedy ''Rita the Mosquito''. As Darragh O'Donoghue described in an issue of ''[[Cineaste (magazine)|Cineaste]]'', generally "her early films comprise a fairly straight pastiche of neorealism and early Fellini (''The Lizards'', 1963, available without English subtitles on YouTube), an episodic comedy, two musicals, and a lovely Spaghetti Western (''The Belle Starr Story'', 1968, directed under the pseudonym Nathan Wich, and available in a bleached English dub on [[YouTube]])-works where knowledge of generic predecessors was essential".+
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-=== 1970s ===+
-The 1970s for the socialist auteur saw the release of virtually all of her most influential and highly regarded films, many of which featured a collaboration with Giancarlo Giannini. According to Geoffrey Nowell-Smith's ''Companion to Italian Cinema'', 1972 "marked the beginning of Wertmüller's golden age". Beginning in 1972 with ''[[The Seduction of Mimi]]'', and continuing until 1978 with ''[[Blood Feud (1978 film)|Blood Feud]]'', Wertmüller released seven films many of which are considered masterpieces of [[Commedia all'italiana]]. It was during this time she saw critical and international success, gaining traction as a filmmaker outside of Italy and in the United States on a scale that many of her contemporaries were baffled by and unable to attain themselves. In 1975, ''[[Swept Away (1974 film)|Swept Away]]'' won Top Foreign Film awarded by the [[National Board of Review]] in the United States and the following year, this period of highly celebrated creative output culminated in the 1976 film, ''[[Seven Beauties]]'', for which she became the first female director to be nominated for an Oscar. This film, which again features Giannini in the lead role, pushes Wertmüller's specific brand of tragic comedy to its limits, following a self-obsessed Casanova from a small Italian town who is sent to a German [[concentration camp]]. The film was initially met with controversy due to Wertmüller's frankness in her rendering of the apparatuses of [[genocide]] as well as her perceived macabre insensitivity towards its survivors, but since has been accepted as her masterwork.+
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-She signed a contract with [[Warner Bros.]] to make four films and her first for them was her first English language film, titled ''[[A Night Full of Rain]]'', which was entered into the [[28th Berlin International Film Festival]] in 1978. The film was not a success and Warner cancelled the contract.+
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-=== 1980s ===+
-Her 1983 film ''[[A Joke of Destiny]]'' was entered into the [[14th Moscow International Film Festival]] in 1985 and ''[[Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)]]'' was entered into the [[36th Berlin International Film Festival]] in 1986.+
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-In 1985, she received the [[Women in Film Los Angeles|Women in Film]] [[Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards#THE CRYSTAL AWARD|Crystal Award]] for outstanding women who, through endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.+
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-After this period of acclaim, Wertmüller began to fade out of international prominence, although she continued to expediently release films well into the 1980s and 90s. Some of these films were sponsored by American financiers and studios, yet they failed to have the breadth of reach that her 1970s output achieved. While these films are less widely seen and were neglected or disparaged by most, films like ''Summer Night'' (1986), ''Ferdinando & Carolina'' (1999), and ''Ciao, Professore'' are retroactively thought of as worthwhile.+
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-She is known for her whimsically [[prolix]] movie titles. For instance, the full title of ''Swept Away'' is ''Swept away by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August''. These titles were invariably shortened for international release. She is entered in the ''[[Guinness Book of Records]]'' for the longest film title, ''Un fatto di sangue nel comune di Siculiana fra due uomini per causa di una vedova. Si sospettano moventi politici. Amore-Morte-Shimmy. Lugano belle. Tarantelle. Tarallucci e vino'', which totals 179 characters. The film is better known under the international titles ''[[Blood Feud (1978 film)|Blood Feud]]'' or ''Revenge''.+
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-==Filmography==+
-{|class="wikitable"+
-|+ '''As writer and director'''+
-!Year+
-!Title+
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-|[[1963 in film|1963]]+
-|''[[The Lizards (film)|The Lizards]]''+
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-|[[1965 in film|1965]]+
-|''[[Let's Talk About Men]]''+
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-|[[1966 in film|1966]]+
-|''[[Rita the Mosquito]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1967 in film|1967]]+
-|''[[Don't Sting the Mosquito]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1968 in film|1968]]+
-|''[[The Belle Starr Story]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1972 in film|1972]]+
-|''[[The Seduction of Mimi]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1973 in film|1973]]+
-|''[[Love and Anarchy]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1974 in film|1974]]+
-|''[[All Screwed Up]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1974 in film|1974]]+
-|''[[Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1975 in film|1975]]+
-|''[[Seven Beauties]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1978 in film|1978]]+
-|''[[The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain|A Night Full of Rain]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1978 in film|1978]]+
-|''[[Blood Feud (1978 film)|Blood Feud]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1983 in film|1983]]+
-|''[[A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit|A Joke of Destiny]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1984 in film|1984]]+
-|''[[Softly, Softly (film)|Softly, Softly]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1986 in film|1986]]+
-|''[[Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)]]''+
-|-+
-|[[1986 in film|1986]]+
-|''[[Summer Night, with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil]]''+
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-|[[1989 in film|1989]]+
-|''[[As Long as It's Love]]''+
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-|[[1989 in film|1989]]+
-|''[[The Tenth One in Hiding]]''+
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-|[[1990 in film|1990]]+
-|''[[:it:Sabato, domenica e lunedì (film 1990)|Saturday, Sunday and Monday]]'' +
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-|[[1992 in film|1992]]+
-|''[[Ciao, Professore!]]''+
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-|[[1996 in film|1996]]+
-|''[[The Nymph]]''+
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-|[[1996 in film|1996]]+
-|''[[The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics]]''+
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-|[[1999 in film|1999]]+
-|''[[Ferdinando and Carolina]]''+
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-|[[2004 in film|2004]]+
-|''[[Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers]]''+
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