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Malombra (1942) Mario Soldati; Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi
Malombra (1942) Mario Soldati; Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi
 
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This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.

In Italian with English subtitles.

This utterly gorgeous Gothic melodrama would be widely hailed as a masterpiece, had it not been made in Italy during the Mussolini regime. A gross injustice, as Malombra - unlike Piccolo Mondo Antico, Mario Soldati's earlier film of an Antonio Fogazzaro novel - contains not one moment of triumphalist flag-waving or Fascist family values. Oddly akin to Rebecca in its atmosphere of death-haunted romance and voluptuous doom, it reaches a peak of visual refinement of which Hitchcock could only dream.

Its star is Isa Miranda (famous, and not without reason, as Italy's answer to Garbo and Dietrich) playing a headstrong but unstable young noblewoman, confined by her uncle to a gloomy villa on the shores of Lake Como. A yellowed and crumbling letter, found in an old spinet, convinces her that she is the reincarnation of her uncle's first wife - another troubled beauty who died a virtual prisoner after being caught in a forbidden love affair.

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5 of 5 masterpiece March 4, 2020
Reviewer: Anonymous Person from Fleetwood, PA United States  
This film is a masterpiece.A very intelligent and beautifully directed film by Mario Soldati. The scene in which the long absent daughter waits for her father to appear in the empty entranceway, although only a minor adjunct of the main plot,is unforgettable.

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4 of 5 Malombra November 2, 2013
Reviewer: Robert Regan from Brewster, NY United States  
Heavy-duty melodrama.  Beautifully done, though a bit too long.  Excellently reproduced on the disc.

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