A Girl Called Jules

A Girl Called Jules
Film poster
Directed by	Tonino Valerii
Story by	Tonino Valerii Francesco Mazzei^[1]
Based on	La ragazza di nome Giulio by Milena Milani^[1]
Produced by	Francesco Mazzei^[2]
Starring	Silvia Dionisio Gianni Macchia Esmeralda Ruspoli Anna Moffo
Cinematography	Stelvio Massi^[2]
Edited by	Franco Fraticelli^[2]
Music by	Riz Ortolani^[2]
Production company	Julia Film^[2]
Distributed by	PAC
Release date	26 June 1970 (1970-06-26) (Italy)
Running time	110 minutes^[2]
Country	Italy^[2]
Box office	₤542.076 million

A Girl Called Jules (Italian: La ragazza di nome Giulio) is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Tonino Valerii.

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Cast

Silvia Dionisio as Jules
Gianni Macchia as Franco
Esmeralda Ruspoli as Laura, mother of Jules
Anna Moffo as Lia
Maurizio Degli Esposti as Lorenzo
John Steiner as the guardian
Roberto Chevalier as Camillo
Livio Barbo as Amerigo
Riccardo Garrone as Carvalli
Raúl Martínez as Luciano
Malisa Longo as Serafina
Nino Nini as priest of Santa Maria del Giglio
Umberto Raho as Father Dario, the confessor
Ivano Staccioli as Professor of philosophy
Tonino Valerii (cameo)

Production

After directing three Spaghetti Western films, director Tonino Valerii was worried about being typecast as a director of only Spaghetti Westerns.^[3] He began exploring other genres and was initially interested in adapting Livia De Stefani's novel Black Grapes.^[3] The original story of Black Grapes involved gangsters, a topic that became popular in Italy after the release of Damiano Damiani's The Day of the Owl.^[3]

Valerii was introduced to producer Francesco Mazzei by Riz Ortolani.^[3] When approaching him for Black Grapes, Mazzei countered the offer to film an adaptation of La ragazza di nome Giulio.^[3]

Screenplay credits on the actual film prints state that Marcello Coscia, Bruno Di Geronimo, Maurio Di Nardo, Francesco Mazzei and Valerii are responsible for the film's screenplay.^[2]^[4] Valerii disregarded this stating that these people "did not actually write the film!" and that the film was written by Giuseppe Murgia and Beppe Bellecca.^[4]

Joan Fontaine was originally cast to play Laura, the title character's mother, but she left the set a few days before the end of shooting due to economic disagreements with the producer Francesco Mazzei;^[5] she was replaced by Esmeralda Ruspoli and all her scenes had to be reshot.^[5] The film received mixed reviews.^[5]

Release

A Girl Called Jules was distributed theatrically in Italy by PAC where it was first shown in Italy on 26 June 1970.^[2] The film grossed a total of 542.076 million Italian lire domestically.^[2] It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival where it was supposed to be screened on the last day of the festival, but the screening was eventually cancelled as the festival was interrupted on 5 July 1970.^[5]

References

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Curti 2016, p. 195.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Curti 2016, p. 196.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Curti 2016, p. 57.
^ ^a ^b Curti 2016, p. 59.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Roberto Curti, Il mio nome è Nessuno. Lo spaghetti western secondo Tonino Valerii, Unmondoaparte, Roma 2008.

Sources

Curti, Roberto (2016). Tonino Valerii: The Films. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476626185.

External links

v t e Films directed by Tonino Valerii
Per il gusto di uccidere (1966) Day of Anger (1967) The Price of Power (1969) A Girl Called Jules (1970) My Dear Killer (1972) A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972) My Name Is Nobody (1973) Go Gorilla Go (1975) Sahara Cross (1977) Shatterer (1987) Savage Attack (1987)

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