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messy makeup

posted 11 years ago by garysan
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Adriana Asti, who plays the mother, is 70 (SEVENTY) when the serial was made.
Too bad that her character in the first scenes is supposed to be about 45.

Giorgia is almost the same at 16 and 42 years old.

Maya Samsa's character looks like younger when she is 40+ than when is 20+.

The other main actors are all about 35 and they are not credible neither in the first part nor in the last one.
Makeup is definetely a mess. But I think that if you accept to work in a serial that is about the story of Italy in a period of almost 40 years you have to accept the fact that at the end you'll look like older that what you are in the real world.

Too bad...

[–] kbjornsen 11 years ago

Some of the kids seem to grow up too fast too, in some instances. And in general, you're correct. But it isn't what's most important in this film/miniseries. The story, the characters and all the other things are. Not rather irrellevant goofs and other half-illogical things. So, not "too bad", but rather a problem that was pretty much bound to occur.

[–] Anna_Screengazer 11 years ago

I couldn't disagree more. They did a top-notch job without piling it on by resorting to puffy rubbery thingies and grey wigs one often gets to see.
By the way, throughout the first half I kept asking myself "so where's Adriana Asti?", because I expected a Pasolini actress to look like a much older woman.
As for Giorgia, that's true - but she never even looked like a psychiatric inmate to begin with (styled squeaky clean hair, etc.) Then again, maybe that's supposed to illustrate the point someone made that "it's as if time was standing still for her", or make her look more like a symbolic figure.