Italian Cinema with English Subtitles: "Profumo di Donna" ("Scent of a Woman")

Join us at the Ridgefield Library on Wednesday, November 16th for a free screening of the Italian movie Profumo di Donna (Scent of a Woman) with English subtitles.

You may recognize the storyline – Al Pacino’s 1992 movie, Scent of A Woman, was a remake of this 1974 Italian film.

No registration necessary.

Synopsis:

A blind Italian Captain (Fausto Consolo), accompanied by his aide Ciccio (Giovanni Bertazzi), who has been assigned to him by the army, is on his way from Turin to Naples to meet with an old comrade who was also disfigured in the same military incident. Unknown to his aide, the Captain means to fulfill a suicide pact there with his old comrade. While they journey, the Captain asks Ciccio to help him spot beautiful women. Unsatisfied with the boy’s descriptions, he uses his nose instead, claiming that he can smell a beautiful woman. During their journey, he carries with him a picture of his beloved Sara, whom he could not bear to have see him disfigured and helpless. The suicide pact is eventually thwarted once Sara enters the picture, and the boy Ciccio does some much-needed growing up.

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