The Sea (1962 film)

The Sea
Directed by	Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Screenplay by	Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Alfio Valdarnini
Produced by	Gianni Buffardi
Starring	Umberto Orsini Françoise Prévost Dino Mele
Cinematography	Ennio Guarnieri
Edited by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Music by	Giovanni Fusco
Release date	1962 (1962)
Language	Italian

The Sea (Italian : Il mare) is a 1962 Italian romantic drama film co-written and directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, in his directorial debut. It premiered at the 23rd edition of the Venice Film Festival in the Informativa sidebar.

Cast

• Umberto Orsini as the actor
• Françoise Prévost as the woman
• Dino Mele as the boy
• Renato Scala
• Renato Terra

Reception

A Variety contemporary review panned the film, writing "intentions of author-director Patroni Griffi whose first pic this is may be good and valid, but he doesn't bring it off. Pic is static and generally as dull as the world it wants to portray." ^[1]

Bianco e Nero's critic Leonardo Autera described it as "a clumsy story [...] peopled with half-formed neurotic characters, that continually derides any credible form of visual narration, [and] is punctuated by long, exasperating shots of nothing". ^[2]

Paolo Mereghetti noted the Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, Gabriele D'Annunzio and André Gide's influences and wrote "Patroni Griffi's directorial debut oozes with aestheticism and literary pretension, and feels heavily dated". ^[3]

References

1. Mosk. (September 1962). "Il Mare - The Sea". Variety . Vol. 228, no. 2. p. 79. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
2. Autera, Leonardo (September 1962). "Il mare". Bianco e Nero (9): 27–28. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
3. Mereghetti, Paolo (2010). "Mare, Il". Il Mereghetti 2011. Vol. 2. Baldini Castoldi Dalai. ISBN   978-88-6073-626-0.

External links

• The Sea at IMDb