To Forget Venice

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To forget Venice
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Film poster
Directed by Franco Brusati
Written by Franco Brusati
Jaja Fiastri
Starring Mariangela Melato
Erland Josephson
David Pontremoli
Eleonora Giorgi
Cinematography Romano Albani
Music by Benedetto Ghiglia
Release date
  • 14 April 1979 (1979-04-14)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

To Forget Venice (Italian : Dimenticare Venezia) is a 1979 Italian drama film written and directed by Franco Brusati. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards. [1]

Contents

Cast

Reception

Critical response

Roger Ebert in 1980, gave it 2.5 stars out of 4 and said "To Forget Venice doesn't feel like a story, it feels like an idea for a story, and that's the problem with it". [2]

Derek Winnert in 2019 gave it 5 stars out of 5 and said "To Forget Venice [Dimenticare Venezia] is a poignant, telling, superb movie, based on a story by Franco Brusati, which was deservedly Oscar nominated as Best Foreign Language Film in 1979. By rights, it should have won". [3]

Awards an nominations

See also

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References

  1. "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
  2. Ebert, Roger. "TO FORGET VENICE". 4 March 1980. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  3. Winnert, Derek. "To Forget Venice". 18 June 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.