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Ghosts of Rome

January 01, 1970

Ghosts of Rome (Italian: Fantasmi a Roma) is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli.[1] It was released in the UK in 1964 as The Phantom Lovers.

Ghosts of Rome
Film poster
Directed byAntonio Pietrangeli
Written bySergio Amidei
Ennio Flaiano
Ruggero Maccari
Antonio Pietrangeli
Ettore Scola
Based onidea by Sergio Amidei
story by Ennio Flaiano
Antonio Pietrangeli
Ettore Scola
Ruggero Maccari
Produced byFranco Cristaldi
StarringMarcello Mastroianni
CinematographyGiuseppe Rotunno
Edited byEraldo Da Roma
Music byNino Rota
Production
companies
Galatea Film
Lux Film
Vides Cinematografica
Distributed byLux Film
Gala (UK)
Release dates
  • 1961 (1961)

August 1964 (UK)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Plot edit

Count di Roviano refuses to sell his palace to a developer, despite having no money. He lives with ghosts: Ronaldo, a lady's man, Bartholomew, a friar, Flora, who died with love, and a five year old boy.

The Count is blown up by his water heater and joins the ghosts. His nephew Federico inherits the castle and moves in with his girlfriend Eileen, intending to sell it. The ghosts call in an artist friend, Caparra, and try to get him to finish a painting so the castle is declared a national monument.

Cast edit

Production edit

Nino Rota did the music. A writer on Rota's career analysed the score, saying that:

The music for the credits... is supplied first by a sprightly modern jazz combo, then by a barrel organ. This is appropriate for a film that is about the present and the past in two ways: ghosts occupying a palazzo in present-day Rome, and the destructive attempts of its new owners to modernise it, attempts thwarted by the ghosts. However, the ghosts’ motifs are not always played on old instruments; while on their first appearance in the film, each one’s motif is so introduced... this often gives way to jazziness... This play with motifs and instrumentations continues throughout the film and is appropriate: the ghosts are not anti-modern; they enjoy playing about in modern-day Rome while also wishing to preserve the inheritance of (their) past.[2]

Reception edit

Variety said "pic is quaint but bogs down after some inventive early passages... special effects are good but without the film pacing to make them captivating throughout. Obvious phantoms soon get repetitive."[3]

One review called it "a jolly little Roman fantasy."[4] The Spectator called it "a cheerful surprise."[5]

The Monthly Film Bulletin called it an "inoffensive comedy has a theme too slight and too lacking to be anything other than tedious when treated at such length."[6]

Sight and Sound called it "a fragile fantasy".[7] Filmink called it "entertaining".[8]

Awards edit

Eduardo De Filippo won Best Supporting Actor at the 1961 San Francisco Film Festival.[9]

References edit

  1. ^ . Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2012. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  2. ^ Dyer, Richard (2010). Nino Rota : music, film, and feeling. p. 42.
  3. ^ "Fantasmi a Roma". Variety. 9 August 1961. p. 16.
  4. ^ Beauty and the beast Grant, Elspeth. The Tatler and Bystander; London Vol. 253, Iss. 3289, (Sep 9, 1964): 511.
  5. ^ The Goddess. (Academy Cinema Club, 'A' certificatr.)-Phantom Lovers. (Continentale, 'A' certificate) (Book Review) QUIGLY, ISABEL. The Spectator; London Vol. 213, Iss. 7106, (Sep 4, 1964): 312.
  6. ^ PHANTOM LOVERS "(Fantasmi a Roma)" Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 31, Iss. 360, (Jan 1, 1964): 148.
  7. ^ Review of film at Sight and Sound
  8. ^ Vagg, Stephen (7 September 2020). "A Tale of Two Blondes: Diana Dors and Belinda Lee". Filmink.
  9. ^ "Advertisement". Variety. 2 May 1962. p. 49.

External links edit

  • Ghosts of Rome at IMDb  
  • at BFI

January 01, 1970
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