{"id":1224,"date":"2009-05-28T13:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:15:52","slug":"good-bye-firenze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/good-bye-firenze\/","title":{"rendered":"Good-bye Firenze!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Original release date: 01.02.58<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Country: Italy<\/li>\n<li>Director: Rate Furlan<\/li>\n<li>Certification number \/ date: 26135 on 01.02.58<\/li>\n<li>Production companies: Gimnasium Film di Giorgio Berlincioni (Florence).<\/li>\n<li>Cast: Maria Grazia Francia, Narciso Parigi, Maria Pia Casilio, Elio Steiner, Elena Makowska, Franco Balducci<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not a lot of information is forthcoming about this obscure romantic comedy, the second authentically Italian release of the year (January being a traditionally slow period for cinema in Italy).  According to Farinotti: \u201cTwo sisters arrive in Florence from America.  They meet two Florentine boys, and soon their friendship becomes something more\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the cast, Maria Pia Casilio \u2013 who I would guess plays one of the love struck girls \u2013 had kickstarted her career with a major role in <strong>Umberto D<\/strong> (she apparently was spotted by De Sica while attending the auditions with a friend).  She was a busy performer in the 50s, but her career seems to have fizzled out pretty swiftly after that.  Maria Grazia Francia, meanwhile, had appeared in the likes of <strong>Bitter Rice <\/strong>(49) and <strong>Roma ore 11<\/strong> (52), but her career also didn\u2019t really extend much into the 60s.  Star Narciso Parigi, meanwhile, was a minor star as a singer and actor.  Anyway, it&#8217;s curious to see how actors from the neo-realist movement were moving into more lightweight fare.<\/p>\n<p>Rate Furlan, meanwhile had a curious career, directing, acting, writing and even composing the soundtracks for a handful of films over a very long period. He\u2019s probably most familiar for appearing as the violinist in Peter Greenaway\u2019s <strong>The Belly of an Architect<\/strong> (87)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a lot of information is forthcoming about this obscure romantic comedy, the second authentically Italian release of the year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}