Ernesto (1979)
Ernesto (1979)
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 400 | DivX @ 1300 Kbps | 91 min | 0,99 Gb
Audio: Italian MP3 @ 160 Kbps | Subs (srt): English, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 400 | DivX @ 1300 Kbps | 91 min | 0,99 Gb
Audio: Italian MP3 @ 160 Kbps | Subs (srt): English, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance
Set in the Italian port of Trieste in 1911, this film is the coming-of-age chronicle of 17 year-old Ernesto, a handsome and clever office clerk who dreams of becoming a violinist. An unexpected intimacy with a sensitive dock worker opens the youth to new feelings. He enjoy the experience but he is affraid about the consequences: social discredit and perhaps prison. Then Ernesto have the first relation with a prostitute, and discovers he can also obtain pleasure with women. Several months later, Ernesto's chance encounter with Ilio, a striking 15 year-old violin student, blossoms into a love affair. Their delicate relationship is interrupted, however, by the amorous advances of Ilios's twin sister who decides Ernesto will be her husband.
Set in 1911 Trieste, this is the story of a homosexual relationship between a 16 year old middle-class office clerk (Martin Halm) and an older common laborer (Michele Placido). Although the film has erotic sequences, some of them of great tenderness, its real intent is in the portrayal of a young, social-climbing manipulator. Ernesto eventually ditches the laborer and becomes enamored of young twins (one a boy, the other a girl!) from a wealthy family. The scenes in which the twins, both played by lovely Lara Wendel, flirt amorously with Ernesto are equal to anything from the films of Francois Truffaut. His possible marriage to the girl hints to him that he can have it both ways, the boy and the girl! This is really a film that appeals to all audiences and won numerous accolades at film festivals and during its limited release. It is based on a controversial novel in Triestino dialect by poet Umberto Saba, controversial because of its frank and unapologetic narration of love between an adult man and an adolescent boy. The movie also boasts Virna Lisi as Ernesto's worried mom, has marvelous period backgrounds and a very captivating musical score. It is an ironic, witty delight.IMDB Reviewer
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Ernesto (1979)
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