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Article: Dark eyes.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 6, 1987
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Dark Eyes
THE RUSSIAN director Nikita Mikhalkov and the Italian star Marcello Mastroianni have been gravitating toward each other for years. Mikhalkov, who adores Fellini's 8 1/2 and resees it before he starts shooting any film, perceived the actor as the archetypal Italian lover and Fellini exponent. The actor, who saw Mikhalkov's Slave of Love, Oblomov, and Unfinished Piece for Player Piano (from Chekhov's Platonov), loved the atmosphere of not so much dolce as bittersweet far niente in those films, even as Mikhalkov is drawn to Western freedom of expression and lavishness. And so, as Hardy says in "The Convergence of the Twain,' about the Titanic and the ...
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