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The Guest
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'''''L'ospite, English title The Guest''''', is a 1971 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Lucia Bosè. It follows a woman who, released from a mental hospital after twenty years, tries in vain to fit into society.
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7.5A forty year old woman, who has been in an asylum, goes to live with her brother's family. She proves incapable of adapting herself to family life, takes refuge in the country alone with her memories, and is later returned to the asylum.
Cast
- Lucia Bosè as Anna / Mélisande / Geneviève
- Peter Gonzales Falcon as Luciano / Pelléas / Dolaud
- Glauco Mauri as Piero, the Writer
- Alvaro Piccardi as Renato, Anna's Brother
- Maddalena Gillia as Franca
- Giampiero Frondini as Neighbour
Themes
- woman director
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'''''L'ospite, English title The Guest''''', is a 1971 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Lucia Bosè. It follows a woman who, released from a mental hospital after twenty years, tries in vain to fit into society.
==Plot== Writer Piero does research in a psychiatric hospital for his next novel. He finds several deficiencies in the treatment of the patients, but hears only self-justifications and criticism when he confronts the doctors with his observations. He takes a particular interest in the case of Anna, a woman who was hospitalised with depression after the death of her adored cousin twenty years ago. The only person in the institute to whom Anna feels an emotional bond is Luciano, a fellow inmate who maintains in a catatonic state.
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