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An aging couple search for peace and family harmony when their only son returns home after a long absence with his fiancee.
Regina Roma
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USA
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01 Jan 1982
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Surprisingly good!
Ava Gardner and Anthony Quinn were absolutely amazing in this film!
While the movie itself is very simple and doesn't seem like much at first glance, there is a looooot hidden in subtext and the characters behavior more than the actual conversations.
This movie is nothing to just watch when you're bored. It is very interesting from a psychological point of view (which I also feel like is the only way to enjoy this movie.. You definitely need some knowledge of Freud and other various psychological theories)
Anyway, I really loved Avas acting in this but I wouldn't watch it again :) -
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Ava Gardner gives a decent performance here, but there’s really not much else to like.
The film is dreary, moves at what feels like a glacial place and doesn’t give us any reason to care about what’s going on. It’s like the writers watched “Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf” and took all the wrong lessons from it.
The editing is bizarre and the scoring is probably the worst I’ve ever heard
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Regina Roma (Jean-Yves Prate, 1983) 2/10
An ageing couple play host to their son (Ray Sharkey) who is returning home after three months. Mama (Ava Gardner) is clingy, whiny and a sly manipulator who still indulges her 36-year old son (Ray Sharkey) as if he is still a child. Papa (Anthony Quinn) is a parking lot attendant, has been a failure all his life and kowtows to his wife's every outlandish whim. The catalyst that takes this claustrophobic drama into Edward Albee ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") territory is the son's mousey fiancé - Regina (Anna Karina). The shock of losing her son to another woman gets Mama into an hysterical tizzy as she berates her son and insults the…