72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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IL SEGNO DI VENERE / THE SIGN OF VENUS

DINO RISI
Italy      98 m.
Synopsis
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Cousins Agnese and Cesira live together with the former's father and an old aunt. Agnese is beautiful, provocative and a great success with men, while Cesira is plain, a dreamer, and vain into the bargain. A fortune-teller has told Cesira that she will be lucky in love because she was born under the sign of Venus, and she's therefore completely convinced that she's got four men at her heels. But her dreams soon go up in smoke when it turns out that the four men don't exactly share her opinion. Mario, the photographer, fancies Agnese; Romolo's only thoughts are about how to sell a stolen car; Alesio, the poet, uses Cesira to type up his theatre piece; and the last of the bunch, the virile fireman Ignazio, gets Agnese pregnant.
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DINO RISI
Screenplay
Cesare Zavattini, Ennio Flaiano, Agenore Incrocci, Luigi Comencini, Franca Valeri
Photography
Carlo Montuori
Edition
Mario Serandrei
Music
Renzo Rossellini
Cast
Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Raf Vallone
Running Time
98 m.
Country
Italy
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