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A Night Full of Rain

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A Night Full of Rain
Theatrical release poster
ItalianLa fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia
Directed byLina Wertmüller
Written byLina Wertmüller
Produced byGil Shiva
Starring
CinematographyGiuseppe Rotunno
Edited byFranco Fraticelli
Music byRoberto De Simone
Production
companies
  • Liberty Film
  • Canafox Films
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
  • 17 January 1978 (1978-01-17) (Italy)
  • 29 January 1978 (1978-01-29) (New York City)
Running time
104 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • United States
LanguageEnglish

A Night Full of Rain (Italian: La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia, lit. 'The End of the World in Our Usual Bed on a Night Full of Rain') is a 1978 romantic drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Candice Bergen.[1] The plot concerns a romantic and heart-breaking relationship between a chauvinist Italian journalist and a feminist American photographer.

An international co-production between Italy and the United States,[2] the film was shot in Rome, Calabria and Padua, Italy, as well as in San Francisco and Vancouver.[3] It was Wertmüller's first film with original English-language dialogue.[1]

In 1978, the film was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.[4]

Plot

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An American tourist, her head full of Marcuse and radical politics, gets involved in a violent confrontation during a Catholic procession in a small Italian village, seeking to protect an Italian girl. An Italian man, attracted to her, tries to help. As they escape to a magnificent abandoned cloister, the man, a communist, tries to seduce the American by quoting Dante. She refuses him when she realizes his insincerity, and he ends up almost raping her, but she escapes. Randomly meeting later in San Francisco, the guy hits on her again and eventually they get married. Their marriage however is troubled.

Cast

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Reception

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Film critic John Simon described A Night Full of Rain as an "almost total failure".[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Canby, Vincent (30 January 1978). "The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain (1978) New Lina Wertmuller Movie: Her First in English". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014.
  2. ^ "La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia". British Film Institute. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  3. ^ "The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain (1978) – History". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  4. ^ "The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain (1978)". Mubi. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  5. ^ Simon, John (1983). Something to Declare: Twelve Years of Films from Abroad. New York: Clarkson N. Potter. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-517-549032.
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