Un bellissimo novembre (That Splendid November). 1969. Directed by Mauro Bolognini

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Un bellissimo novembre (That Splendid November). 1968. Directed by Mauro Bolognini.

Un bellissimo novembre (That Splendid November). 1969. Italy/France. Directed by Mauro Bolognini. Screenplay by Ercole Patti, Lucia Drudi Demby, Antonio Altoviti, based on a novel by Patti. With Gina Lollobrigida, Gabriele Ferzetti, André Laurence. Courtesy Cinecittà. In Italian; English subtitles. DCP. 92 min.

Restless and untutored in the ways of love and sex, an aristocratic Sicilian teenager becomes naively enmeshed in a game of erotic cruelty with his older, married aunt, causing a scandal in their seemingly devout and proper Catholic family. Morricone wrote 15 scores for Mauro Bolognini, the most prolific relationship of his career; That Splendid November shows the composer at his most lushly romantic. May-December stories abound in cinema, from The Graduate to Todd Haynes’s latest, but this remains one of the most affecting and political.

This film accompanies Ennio Morricone.

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