A Special Day (Blu-ray)
A special film about two special people.
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Blu-ray Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sophia Loren & Marcello Mastroianni | |
Performer: | John Vernon | |
Directed by | Ettore Scola | |
Screenplay by | Ettore Scola & Ruggero Maccari | |
Composition by | Armando Trovajoli | |
Cinematography by | Pasqualino De Santis | |
Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 8/10 --
A Special Day remains a particularly potent demonstration of Ettore Scola's tremendous talents.
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The Retro Set
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
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Q Network Film Desk
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
Sophia Loren puts in her best performance since Two Women.
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Spirituality and Practice
The Criterion Collection's 4K Blu-ray offers a beautiful transfer of Ettore Scola's long unavailable gem.
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Slant Magazine
Ettore Scola analyzes the present and makes us see and feel the intolerance that still persists. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Product Description:
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 78,406
- UPC: 715515158718
- Shipping Weight: 0.20/lbs (approx)
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