A Night Full of Rain

REVIEW
In this Italian battle-of-the-sexes drama, Giannini stars as an Italian Communist journalist trapped in a rocky marriage to Bergen, an American photographer and feminist. Director Wertmüller attempts to wring life out of the clash between an old-world chauvinist intent on keeping his wife in check and a liberated woman equally determined to continue her career. Set in Italy and San Francisco, the film has moments of visual spectacle, insight and humor, but the confused plot undermines it all. The full title is The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain. (Italian with English subtitles)