Article: `PIZZICATA' BRINGS WORLD WAR II-ERA RURAL ITALY TO LIFE.(L.A. LIFE) (movie review)

Byline: Janet Maslin The New York Times

Good fortune literally falls out of the sky in Edoardo Winspeare's ``Pizzicata,'' a winsome Italian film set in southern Italy in 1943. A handsome Italian-American soldier named Tony Marciano (Fabio Frascaro) is forced to parachute into rural Italy, near the place where he was born. He also falls into the midst of a family including a beautiful, lonely young woman named Cosima (Chiara Torelli).

Since Tony speaks fluent Italian, it's not difficult for the head of the family, Carmine, to pass the young man off as a distant relative, and so Tony's inauguration into rustic Italian life begins.

It's a life ...

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