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Published: Aug. 15, 2010
Words: 36443 (approximate)
Language: English
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Rome just before the release of La Dolce Vita. The nobles of old, the arrivistes, the snobs, the bigots, the pseudo-intellectuals, the artists. In a psychological piece of fiction where its internal focalizer's individual freedom, both as an ambitious screenwriter and as a passionate man, is like the large looking glass of a small drawing room: it merely gives an illusion of space.Extended description
Rome in 1959, just before the release of Fellini’s La dolce vita: the nobles of old and the arrivistes, the snobs and the beautiful people, the cinema and the bigots, the pseudo-intellectuals and the artists. And Giada Rovi-Sanlupi, the moody, unconventional daughter of a papal aristocrat. And Germaine Kenneth, the sophisticated bisexual Shakespearian English actress evocative of Canova’s Venus Victrix. And the pushy, promiscuous showjumper Bea Alemanni. All come together in a psychological piece of fiction where the mal marié Cristiano Belisario, its ‘internal focalizer’, has completed a film dramatization of Pauline Bonaparte’s life only to discover that his individual freedom, both as an ambitious screenwriter and as a passionate man, is like the large looking glass of a small drawing room: it merely gives an illusion of space.Adult-content rating:
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prejudice, rome, cinema, theatre, parties, aristocracy, la dolce vita, paolina borghese bonaparte, forte dei marmi, lucca, tuscan villas, saracinesco, mazzano romano, film directors, screenwriters, conformism, snobs, snobbism, arrivistes, showjumpers, bisexuals, intellectuals, pseudointellectuals, social climbers, smart set, movie stage actorsAvailable ebook reading formats
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