Press Release Warner Archive Collection Announcement: A Night Full of Rain (1978) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Robert Crawford]

COMING TO BLU-RAY FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION ON DECEMBER 17th!


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A NIGHT FULL OF RAIN (1978)
a/k/a The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain (1978)
BD-50
COLOR
RUNNING TIME: 104 Minutes
ASPECT RATIO: 16x9 1.85:1 with side mattes
AUDIO SPECS: DTS HD MA 2.0 Mono
SUBTITLES: ENGLISH SDH
RATED R
Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Candice Bergen
Includes the Original Theatrical Trailer.
Lizzy (Candice Bergen), a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo (Giancarlo Giannini). Then finds she can't live with him or without him. Bergen (Murphy Brown) and Giannini (Seven Beauties) take both comic and fierce battle stations in this colorful excursion into the male/female combat zone. So what if the world, as we learn from the TV in Lizzy and Paolo's luxurious apartment, is crashing around their ears; this is WAR! Writer/director Lina Wertmuller relied on spontaneity and improvisation in making... A Night Full of Rain, her first film in English. Giannini, star of Wertmuller's groundbreaking Swept Away and Seven Beauties, was familiar with the technique, Bergen wasn't. But it worked splendidly. Bergen gives one of the warmest and most characterful performances of her career, the Los Angeles Times hailed. When it rains, this film's two stars pour it on!


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[Robin9]

I don't know this film. I'll investigate.

 

[lark144]

I don't know this film. I'll investigate.

It got terrible reviews in NYC when it opened which caused me to skip it. I don't think it made much of an impression in the box office. This was supposed to be Lina Wertmuller's commercial breakthrough, which bombed. I believe it's in English. Later, a few friends told me they really liked it. One even thought it was the director's best film, but at that point, the movie had already left. Any movie which pairs Giancarlo Giannini and Candice Bergen can't be all bad, though. I imagine it's on a MOD which can be found at the library.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I don't remember this film when it opened.

 

[Thomas T]

For what it's worth, this is what I wrote on the film in 2022:

A feminist American photographer (Candice Bergen) is pursued by an Italian communist chauvinist journalist (Giancarlo Giannini) from Italy to San Francisco. But their subsequent marriage is a battleground of sexual politics. Written and directed by Lina Wertmuller (SWEPT AWAY) in her first English language film. Set during a rainy night (except for flashbacks), this is essentially a two character film with Giannini and Bergen spewing political and feminist rhetoric back and forth when not fighting or having sex. There is a sort of Greek "chorus" comprised of friends who make comments while observing their arguing and sex life. Giuseppe Rotunno's often striking cinematography aside, this is a didactic and tedious exercise with none of the wit of her SWEPT AWAY or LOVE AND ANARCHY. One can see what Wertmuller is trying to accomplish but it is ultimately a failure. The film is as convoluted as its title. Perhaps it would have worked better in Italian and with an Italian actress instead of an American. Bergen seems overwhelmed by it all. With Michael Tucker and Anne Byrne.

 

[Robin9]

Any movie which pairs Giancarlo Giannini and Candice Bergen can't be all bad, though.

I agree, and that's why I'm a bit curious.

 

[Matt Hough]

I don't remember this film when it opened.

I didn't go to see it because the reviews were terrible (critics expecting so much after Seven Beauties had been so lauded), and the film sank like a stone at the box-office. I think it played a week here.

 

[Robert Crawford]

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