Lina Wertmuller and Hank Donat |
The Chronicle
Building is the U.S. base for Giancarlo Giannini's Italian journalist in
Lina Wertmuller's The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full
of Rain, aka Night Full of Rain. The 1978
film includes great footage of the South of Market area long before today's
familiar development there. Wertmuller's usual stew of sex roles and politics
is well represented in this, her first English language film. Candice Bergen
is Giancarlo's capitalist foil this time around in a continuation of themes
from Wertmuller's brilliant earlier work, Swept Away by a Strange Destiny
in the Blue Sea of August, aka Swept Away.
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