Giovanni Arpino

Movies

Scent of a Woman
Novel
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
Lost Soul
Novel
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Scent of a Woman
Novel
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.
La Suora Giovane
Writer
The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the role of seducer to that of seduced.
Boccaccio '70
Screenplay
An anthology of four adult tales: a young couple tries to hide their marriage and the wife’s supposed pregnancy from their place of employment; a billboard photo of a scantily clad woman comes to life to torment the local censor; an aristocratic couple comes to terms with life and marriage after the domineering husband is caught visiting sex workers by the press; a lottery is held in which the prize is to spend the night with a beautiful woman.