| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film Italy |
| Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material Ruggero Maccari Dino Risi | |||
Twentieth Century-Fox Films
Directed by Dino Risi
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Hen's Tooth Video)
A blind military man takes a trip through Italy with his young assigned escort. He is a hard drinking womanizer whose first order of business in Naples is to find a prostitute. The boy discovers a photograph and a gun in his suitcase while the man is otherwise occupied. It's on to Rome where they meet a priest, more girls and talk a lot, about girls, mostly. Back in Naples they meet up with another blind man and his family, consisting of, you guessed it, more girls. One of them is in love with the much older blind man, although the escort is probably more appropriate for her. The blind man resists her advances while she ignores the young boy. The plot takes an unexpected tragic turn with an attempted murder-suicide. Uneven, to be sure, and a sexist attitude permeates much of the film, but bittersweet and beautifully photographed on Italian locations.
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