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!
The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain © 1977 Liberty Film s.r.l. Package Design © 2010 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.