Between Miracles

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Between Miracles
Directed by Nino Manfredi
Produced by Angelo Rizzoli Jr.
Written by Nino Manfredi
Piero De Bernardi
Leonardo Benvenuti
Luigi Magni
Starring Nino Manfredi
Mariangela Melato
Music by Guido De Angelis
Cinematography Armando Nannuzzi
Distributed by Cineriz
Release dates May 18, 1972 (1972-05-18)
Running time 122 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Between Miracles (Italian: Per grazia ricevuta) is a 1971 Italian commedia all'italiana film written and directed by Italian actor Nino Manfredi, in his debut as feature film director.

Plot

A qualified surgeon is urgently called by a party in a small and inadequate private hospital to operate a man in critical condition because of a suicide attempt. This is the protagonist of the film, Benedict Parisi, whose first name seems prophetic of his story. In the waiting room is the companion Joan Micheli, pregnant with him, which—Benedict being alone in the world—gives consent to the risky operation. Then there is her mother, Immaculate, however, perched like a vulture, he hopes the death of man, desiring to Giovanna married to a lawyer friend of the family: it considers more worthy, for the religious feelings Instead Benedict no longer possesses. The narrative is interwoven with flashbacks to the early life of Benedict, lively and cheeky boy who lives in a village of Ciociaria. Benedict is an orphan: he takes care of only a maiden aunt and libertine, who constantly criticizes its pranks, filling it with religious scruples and meditate to get rid of entrusting it to an orphanage. At night, the boy can not sleep because he is afraid of certain sounds, his aunt said to have remorse for his wickedness, does them because she herself getting men. Even the friends of Benedict are pervaded by scruples, fear of being in mortal sin for watching, hidden in the fields, under the skirts of farmers busy harvesting. For this reason, as he prepares to receive his first communion, Benedict lives the incident in an atmosphere of religiosity exasperated. In preparation for the sacrament, the priest Don Quirino distributed to children effigies of "celestial friends," the saints who should assist them until Jesus to receive Benedict touches Eusebius, who was martyred at the stake. The same night the boy woke up from the entrance is the home of a loving aunt, John. We think of her aunt, who quickly comes together while John is hiding in a closet but it opens, revealing the intruder. In order not to betray the woman can claim it as Eusebius, and imposes his nephew not to tell anyone, not even to the priest, with the excuse that it would be a sin of pride, and that the '"heavenly friend" might take offense. Benedict is not convinced, but in the end, apparently, believe it. The next day, in fact, before going to school, put up a prayer written in Eusebius in the same cabinet where he found John. At that moment comes in the room to wash her aunt. Hiding in the closet, Benedict sees naked and starts to cry. The woman that finds out and starts beating, increasing his sense of guilt and shame, and warning him that the priest from whom the evening will confess not give him absolution. Benedict has not the courage to confess to Father Quirino, who is playing the ceremony in a hurry, and pretending that they have done. At the time of first communion, believing in sacrilege, the boy feels suffocated from the host and the shame runs away from the church falling into a deep ravine. All fear the worst has happened, instead the child gets up unharmed. Now the people cry and the miracle Benedict, almost like an icon, dressed in a tunic in honor of St. Eusebius is carried in procession among the folk who ask him thanks. [2] The aunt catches at the chance to get rid of, dedicated to the saint and making him welcome in a Franciscan monastery, where he passed his youth. Benedict grows so convinced that he was miraculously cured, working as a laborer in the monastery, away from the temptations of the world. The brothers become attached to its naive simplicity, waiting with a sign indicating the young man finally his vocation. The abbot, realizing the dilemmas of Benedict wants before he did experience the world, following a street vendor, zi 'Checco, who travels often to the convent. The sign will be there, but it's the opposite. The boy now feels a strong attraction to the opposite sex, such as accidentally discovered sucking the venom of a snake (the serpent tempter) from the leg of a beautiful young teacher who had been bitten in a meadow near the convent. Benedict then enters in crisis and despair drunk in the cellar of the convent and belting a song scollacciata. To escape the temptations of the world has chosen to become a monk. The abbot, however, understands that it is not a true conversion and decide instead to move it. It then becomes vendor of clothing, especially undergarments. The activity "little debonair" does it again collide with the ministers of God, in the same bed in which those women, attracted by new fashions, visit his truck. But Benedict, blocked by his scruples, unable to take advantage of easy opportunities that come his way as well as meeting and chatting with a beautiful village girl who had come to him at night to buy panties French and willing to pay in kind . Until, during a sleepless night, he met a pharmacist atheist, Oreste Micheli, who sympathizes with him and tries to pull him away from religious scruples and the faith itself. It also leads to a prostitute but Benedict does not consume the relationship because the woman is married. In love, loved by the beautiful daughter of the pharmacist Joan Benedict believes he has given peace to his existence. Orestes has never married the mother of Joan, Immaculate, a woman on the contrary very observant if not bigoted, that continues to threaten want to report the alleged sexual abuse that gave rise to daughter. Giovanna, as Benedict is a virgin, is rather close to the ideas of his father, and leads the young man to overcome his resistance and finally get rid of her sexual inhibitions. But he is torn between the desire to marry, a decision welcomed by the mother, and the sympathy for the ideas of Orestes. When you finally decide to get married at the crucial moment Benedict hesitate to assent to the formula Giovanna bed and is in its place no answers. The two young men, by mutual agreement, give birth to live together as husband and wife for six years. Shortly after the discovery of the pregnancy of Joan, Orestes has a heart attack. In the absence of Benedict, Immaculate Conception, the mother of Joan, torpor of takes advantage of the imminent death of Orestes to give him the last rites. The pharmacist atheist, dying, without gloss, kiss the crucifix which the priest approaches the lips. Benedict arrives in time to witness the scene and shocked by the alleged conversion of his beloved "father" runs away and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff over the sea. Conducted in the hospital, will be saved, then abruptly ridestandosi the words of the professor-surgeon who says the evidence of success of the operation: "It was a miracle!"

Cast

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Between Miracles". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-12. 

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