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Language
  
6.8/10
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Genre
  
Drama

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Country
  
Italy

A Leap in the Dark movie poster

Release date
  
14 February 1980 (1980-02-14)

Screenplay
  
Marco Bellocchio, Vincenzo Cerami, Piero Natoli

Cast
  
(Mauro Ponticelli), (Marta Ponticelli), (Giovanni Sciabola),
Gisella Burinato
(Anna)

Similar movies
  
Directed by Marco Bellocchio, Michel Piccoli movies, Movies about Italy

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A Leap in the Dark (Italian: Salto nel vuoto, and also known as Leap Into the Void) is a 1980 Italian film written and directed by Marco Bellocchio. It stars Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée, who won the Best Actor and Best Actress prizes respectively at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. The film also won the David di Donatello for Best Director and was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

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Plot

Judge Mauro Ponticelli has been raised by his older sister Marta. However, Marta has been having mental problems and fantasizing about committing suicide, which concerns him greatly. She seems to recover when he introduces her to Giovanni Sciabola, a brilliant actor, but Mauro then finds himself becoming jealous of their relationship.

Cast

  • Michel Piccoli - Mauro Ponticelli
  • Anouk Aimée - Marta Ponticelli
  • Michele Placido - Giovanni Sciabola
  • Gisella Burinato - Anna
  • Antonio Piovanelli - Quasimodo
  • Anna Orso - Marilena
  • Pier Giorgio Bellocchio - Giorgio
  • Criticism

    The film was favourably reviewed by the eminent critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker : " The protagonist of Leap - a judge, Mauro Ponticelli, played by the usually suave French actor Michel Piccoli - is mean in perverse, Bunuelian ways...Mauro has always been protected and cared for by his older sister, Marta..He has no intention of growing up...[her] unusual behaviour has actually been a sign that she is rebelling - that she's struggling to free herself from her deathly bondage to him... The movie is about family entanglements and the functions of madness...Mauro is a craven fraud...Mauro the judge is a worm : a spoiled worm wriggling in its comfortable nest...Piccoli is able to give this mesmerizing performance despite the fact that he and Anouk Aimée are dubbed into Italian...Anouk Aimée is usually strikingly beautiful and a little blank - not quite in contact;.. But she's a magnificent camera subject, and her remoteness fits the situation here..Leap Into the Void is a film about people who are out of control made by a director who's in as close to total control as a moviemaker is ever likely to be..there's greatness in it."

    References

    A Leap in the Dark Wikipedia
    A Leap in the Dark IMDb A Leap in the Dark themoviedb.org


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