L'argent [Money] (Robert Bresson, 1983)

Jul

22

A man at an ATM holds on to a Visa credit card with tweezers. DPs: Pasqualino De Santis & Emmanuel Machuel.

Everything's expensive: someone is a at bank or ATM*

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #RobertBresson #LevTolstoy #ChristianPatey #VincentRisterucci #CarolineLang #SylvieVanDenElsen #PasqualinoDeSantis #EmmanuelMachuel #money #drama #crime #BookAdaptation #France #Switzerland #1980s ★★★★★/♥︎

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of June 11: characters say or wave hello

Morte a Venezia [Death in Venice] (Luchino Visconti, 1971)

A sickly composer meets and becomes infatuated with a boy during his stay in Venice.

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#LuchinoVisconti #ThomasMann #DirkBogarde #BjörnAndrésen #RomoloValli #MarkBurns #NoraRicci #SilvanaMangano #GustavMahler #PasqualinoDeSantis #LGBT #cinemastodon #film

Bales catch up!

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of May 18: a family gathering

La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmerung) [The Damned] (Luchino Visconti, 1969)
The wealthy Von Essenbecks gather for a family dinner party. There is entertainment.

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#LuchinoVisconti #DirkBogarde #IngridThulin #HelmutGriem #HelmutBerger #RenaudVerley #UmbertoOrsini #CharlotteRampling #MauriceJarre #PasqualinoDeSantis #ArmandoNannuzzi #cinemastodon #film

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of April 19: a clothesline for #NationalHangingOutDay

Una giornata particolare [A Special Day] (Ettore Scola, 1977)
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#EttoreScola #SophiaLoren #MarceloMastroianni #JohnVernon #FrançoiseBerd #ArmandoTrovajoli #PasqualinoDeSantis #cinemastodon #film

Leonard Whiting e Olivia Hussey in Romeo e Giulietta (1968) per la regia di Franco Zeffirelli
#film #movie #cinema #cinefilo #FrancoZeffirelli #LeonardWhiting #OliviaHussey #PasqualinoDeSantis #RomeoandJuliet #unocinema

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