A Special Day (2-DVD)

A special film about two special people.
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Format:  DVD  (2 Discs)
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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 13, 2015
  • Originally Released: 1977
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Rating: A- -- An observant drama on the ill-effects of fascism, that's grounded on the lives of two anguished lonely souls with opposite personalities, beliefs and lives. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Oct 20, 2018
Rating: 8/10 -- A Special Day remains a particularly potent demonstration of Ettore Scola's tremendous talents. Full Review
The Retro Set
Dec 27, 2018
Sophia Loren puts in her best performance since Two Women. Full Review
Spirituality and Practice
Jan 23, 2004
Rating: 3.5/4 -- takes the framework of a familiar subset of romantic drama and vigorously turns it on its head as a means of tackling an acute example of what it means to be a social outsider Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
Dec 2, 2015
Rating: B+ -- Cast against type, Mastroianni (Oscar-nominated) and Sophia Loren deliver great performances in Ettore Scola's sensitive drama about a suicidal homosexual and a tired housewife. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jun 14, 2012
In Ettore Scola's funny, humane A Special Day, Antonietta and Gabriele are never really a couple, but their brief encounter lights up the screen with the kind of radiance you get only from great movie actors who also are great stars.
New York Times
May 9, 2005
The Criterion Collection's 4K Blu-ray offers a beautiful transfer of Ettore Scola's long unavailable gem. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Oct 14, 2015

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The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life. Beyond the "sensational" aspect of virile Marcello Mastoianni playing a gay character, A SPECIAL DAY garnered a great deal of American attention when the stars promoted the film on the very first installment of PBS's DICK CAVETT SHOW (that's the one in which Mastroianni might have said the F-word).

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  • Sales Rank: 77,603
  • UPC: 715515158817
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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