I Knew Her Well
Following the gorgeous, seemingly liberated Adriana (Divorce Italian Style’s Stefania Sandrelli) as she chases her dreams in the Rome of La dolce vita, I Knew Her Well is at once a delightful immersion in the popular music and style of Italy in the sixties and a biting critique of its sexual politics and the culture of celebrity. Over a series of intimate episodes, just about every one featuring a different man, a new hairstyle, and an outfit to match, the unsung Italian master Antonio Pietrangeli, working from a script he cowrote with Ettore Scola, composes a deft, seriocomic character study that never strays from its complicated central figure. I Knew Her Well is a thrilling rediscovery, by turns funny, tragic, and altogether jaw-dropping.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with actor Stefania Sandrelli
- New interview with film scholar Luca Barattoni about the career of director Antonio Pietrangeli
- Archival footage of Sandrelli's audition
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by journalist and author Alexander Stille
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with actor Stefania Sandrelli
- New interview with film scholar Luca Barattoni about the career of director Antonio Pietrangeli
- Archival footage of Sandrelli's audition
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by journalist and author Alexander Stille
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Stefania Sandrelli
- Adriana Astarelli
- Mario Adorf
- Emilio “Lunk” Ricci
- Jean-Claude Brialy
- Dario Marchionni
- Joachim Fuchsberger
- The writer
- Nino Manfredi
- Cianfanna
- Enrico Maria Salerno
- Roberto
- Ugo Tognazzi
- Gigi Baggini
Credits
- Director
- Antonio Pietrangeli
- Story and screenplay by
- Antonio Pietrangeli
- Story and screenplay by
- Ruggero Maccari
- Story and screenplay by
- Ettore Scola
- Director of photography
- Armando Nannuzzi
- Production design and costumes by
- Maurizio Chiari
- Music by
- Piero Piccioni
- Edited by
- Franco Fraticelli
- Director of production
- Danilo Marciani
Trailer for I Knew Her Well
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