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View full company info for Canafox Films. 1. A Special Day (1977) Approved | 106 min | Drama. 8.1. Rate this. Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938. Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd. Votes: 15,254. 2.
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On May 4, 1938, the day Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome, Antonietta, a naïve, sentimental and overworked homemaker, stays home doing her usual domestic tasks, while her fascist husband, Emanuele, and their six spoiled children take to the streets to follow a parade. The building is empty, except for the caretaker Pauletta, and a neighbor across the...
Much of the film's themes revolve around gender roles and the model of masculinity under fascist Italy. Antonietta is the donna madre, a mother figure who meets her feminine responsibilities in the regime by having six children, boasting one more will secure her the government bonus established for large families in 1933. The Fascist regime equates...
Maurizio Costanzo, Ruggero Maccari and Ettore Scola wrote the screenplay, after Maccari had learned about an incident in Fascist Italy in which homosexuals were arrested and taken to Sardinia. Particularly, the story of broadcaster Nunzio Filogamowas an inspiration to the story, as Filogamo always had to carry a certificate stating he was not homos...
The film screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1977. It also played in New York Cityin September 1977.
Critical response
The film received praise from critics in Italy and throughout Europe on its release. A Special Day has an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews, and an average rating of 8/10. Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, appreciated the film's humor and humanity. The New York review states that while the celebrity of Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianniwould draw audiences in, they were too glamorous to play their characters, and thus, th...
Awards and nominations
The film competed for the Palme d'Or in the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, and while its bid was supported by a few festival co-ordinators, juror Roberto Rossellini successfully lobbied for Padre Padrone instead. At the 2014 Venice Film Festival, it won the award for Best Restored Film.
After a restoration by Cineteca Nazionale di Roma and Surf Film, the film was placed in the Venice Classics section in the 2014 Venice Film Festival.
An English-language stage adaptation, titled Working on a Special Day, had its U.S. Premiere in 2013 in an Off-Broadway production from Por Piedad Teatro and The Play Company. Mexican theatre artists Ana Graham and Antonio Vega co-directed and performed the roles of Antonietta and Gabriele, respectively.
Bibliography
1. Carotenuto, Marinella (2009). Sofia Loren: The Quintessence of Being an Italian Woman, Ediz. italiana e inglese. Mediane. ISBN 978-8896042106. 2. Chansel, Dominique (2001). Europe On-screen: Cinema and the Teaching of History. Council of Europe. ISBN 9287145318. 3. Ponzanesi, Sandra (1 January 2014). "Queering European Sexualities Through Italy's Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities". What's Queer about Europe?: Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms. Ford...
A Special Day at IMDbA Special Day at the TCM Movie DatabaseA Special Day at AllMovieA Special Day: Small Victories an essay by Deborah Young at the Criterion CollectionThese are the best Canadian movies ever made, according to esteemed film critic Linda Barnard. How many of these classics have you seen?
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Jan 23, 2017 · The film opens with six uninterrupted minutes of archival images showing the pomp and circumstance with which Hitler was greeted by ‘imperial Rome’ (which) comes from a public service film entitled The Führer’s Trip to Italy, which details the key events of the day.
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