{"id":12561,"date":"2015-11-07T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2015-11-07T13:09:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:09:14","slug":"wild-blood-italys-osvaldo-valenti-and-luisa-ferida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12561","title":{"rendered":"Wild Blood: Italy&#8217;s Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JestersSupper1942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-12564\" alt=\"JestersSupper1942\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JestersSupper1942.jpg\" width=\"84\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One 7 Movies\u2019 DVD release of a WWII era drama is a bit of a surprise, given the label\u2019s catalogue tends to be heavy in horror and sexploitation titles, many with less than desirable source prints and transfers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12563\"><strong>The Jester\u2019s Supper<\/strong> \/ <strong>La cena delle beffe<\/strong><\/a> (1942) is a taut film adaptation of Sem Benelli&#8217;s cruel revenge trale, directed by Alessandro Blasetti, and starring Osvaldo Valenti &#8211; a popular actor during the 1930s &amp; 1940s who was executed with his lover \/ occasional co-star Luisa Ferida by partisans, days before Italy&#8217;s liberation during WWII.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/WildBlood_2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-12562\" alt=\"WildBlood_2008\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/WildBlood_2008.jpg\" width=\"84\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>That tragic, grim backstory &#8211; love and danger in Fascist WII Italy &#8211; formed the basis of Marco Tullio Giordana&#8217;s docu-drama <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12560\"><strong>Wild Blood<\/strong> \/ <strong>Sangepazzo<\/strong><\/a> (2008), \u00a0a less than satisfactory film starring Luca Zingaretti and Monica Bellucci as the doomed couple.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly from the poster campaign, there&#8217;s no effort to even describe the film&#8217;s plot nor indicate its principle historic figures &#8211; perhaps the studio&#8217;s ploy to sell the drama to international audiences as a Monica Bellucci romance, seen embracing not her co-star, but another (younger) actor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OsvaldoValenti.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-12568\" alt=\"OsvaldoValenti\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OsvaldoValenti.png\" width=\"82\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s probably a clean transfer of <strong>Jester<\/strong> in Italy (if not Europe), but One 7 Movie&#8217;s disc is an adequate source for North American buyers, and perhaps the film&#8217;s release will seed a small interest in Valenti&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of the long out-of-print\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/t2u\/2799_TooBadShesBad.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Too Bad She&#8217;s Bad \/ Peccato Che Sia Una Canaglia<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(1955), a comedy starring Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, and Marcello Mastroianni, <strong>The\u00a0Jester&#8217;s Supper<\/strong>\u00a0is also the lone sampling of Blasetti&#8217;s filmography in North America.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Cheers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of The Jester\u2019s Supper \/ La cena delle beffe (1942) from One 7 Movies with Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, Italy&#8217;s wartime silver screen power couple whose tragic final years and execution were dramatized in Wild Blood \/ Sangepazzo (2008) from eOne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4075,2562,2563,4072,4076,4068,4066,4069,4067,4065,4063,4070,4064],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/JestersSupper_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3gB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12591,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions\/12591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}