Palombella rossa

1989
1h 29m

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueBecause of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As t... Tout lireBecause of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As the match is about to finish, he misses the penalty which would have let his team draw the ... Tout lireBecause of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As the match is about to finish, he misses the penalty which would have let his team draw the match and keep the leadership.

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- 6 victoires et 15 nominations au total

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The meaning of "palombella" in Italian includes "columbine", "wild pigeon", and (in water polo, or in other ball sports) "a parabolic shot to go over the goalkeeper and score a goal"/"a lob shot". So the original title of the film could be read as "Red Lob", which brings the sport and the politics -red obviously signifies the Communist Party- together.

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Edited from La sconfitta (1973)

Bandes originales
E ti vengo a cercare
(1988)
Written by Franco Battiato
Performed by various characters
Courtesy of EMI Music Italy Spa

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4/10

The Pink Menace

As cinema "Palombella rossa" is quite bad, probably Nanni Moretti's worst film, and curiously made after "La messa è finita", in which faith was put to test. In "Palombella..." it was the turn to reflect on one sector of the tense fabric of Italian politics of late 20th century: the Italian Communist Party. Maybe today it results interesting from a historical perspective, as it probably was in 1989 from an ideological point of view to both Italian Communists and those who cared about their predicaments after the Berlin Wall fell. Unfortunately, endlessly enunciated ideas do not make an attractive audiovisual experience, even if the plot device of resorting to the loss of memory is a fine and clever excuse to trigger personal evaluation. Moretti relies more on words than on moving images and sounds, and in the end his film becomes very tedious. You may enjoy it if you love to hear him shouting for 89 minutes, and if you share his ideology (whatever it is): this reminds me of a few of my theater friends who enjoy some tiresome, stage-bound motion pictures that are loaded with dialogues and heavy theatricality. But the average spectator, even the one who loves "films of / with ideas", will probably look in another direction after 20 minutes.