Cinema
Body of Love
Corpo d'amore
Fabio Carpi · 1972
Synopsis
A father and his son, who barely know each other, rent a villa by an isolated beach to try to grow closer, but find nothing to say to each other. As they are about to leave, they discover on the sand an unconscious young woman, washed up by the sea, who does not speak their language. They take her back to the villa to care for her, and both become attached to her.
Context
The first feature film by its director, after a short television documentary in 1968, the film deals with the incommunicability between two generations of the same family. Carpi wrote it with the writer Luigi Malerba. The cinematography is by Vittorio Storaro; François Simon plays the father, Mimsy Farmer the young woman, with Lino Capolicchio. The film had no release in the United States.
Who it is for
A film of more than an hour and a half, in Italian, carried by three characters and by Vittorio Storaro's cinematography.
Prizes and reception
According to the Centro Sperimentale and the Italian press, its director was more appreciated outside Italy than in his own country.
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