Gli occhiali d’oro (The Gold-Rimmed Glasses). 1987. Directed by Giuliano Montaldo

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Gli occhiali d'oro (The Gold-Rimmed Glasses). 1987. Directed by Giuliano Montaldo. Courtesy Mediaset.

Gli occhiali d’oro (The Gold-Rimmed Glasses). 1987. Italy/France/Yugoslavia. Directed by Giuliano Montaldo. Screenplay by Enrico Medioli, Valerio Zurlini, Montaldo, Antonella Grassi, Nicola Badalucco, based on a novel by Giorgio Bassani. With Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett, Valeria Golino, Stefania Sandrelli. 4K digital restoration by Cinecittà; courtesy Cinecittà. In Italian; English subtitles. 110 min.

This award-winning adaptation of a novel by Giorgio Bassani, author of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, is similarly set in his hometown of Ferrara under fascism, where Mussolini’s antisemitic laws unleash community hatreds and seal the fates of a Jewish student and a gay doctor. Ennio Morricone’s musical theme, with its overtones of Rachmaninoff and Chopin, deepens the sense of loneliness and longing felt in Philippe Noiret’s and Rupert Everett’s touching performances.

This film accompanies Ennio Morricone.

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