Goffredo Parise

Movies

The Scent of Blood
Novel
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In return, Carlo has long accepted that her wife may have lovers, but her volatile relationship with a young neo-fascist suddenly rekindles his jealousy.
Il prete bello
Novel
In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.
Nest of Vipers
Screenplay
A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.
He and She
Novel
Mysterious romance involving an uninhibited woman and a photographer, shot in strange modernist interiors and abstract sports car-on-a-highway to nowhere exteriors.
La donna è una cosa meravigliosa
Writer
Italian episode movie
My Wife
Novel
Five comedic episodes, all starring Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano.
The Conjugal Bed
Story
A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.
Agostino
Screenplay
Agostino is a 13-year-old boy on vacation in Venice with his widowed mother. When a local stud seduces her, jealous Agostino joins a local group of juvenile delinquents out of protest. They force him to face his budding sexuality..
La cuccagna
Screenplay
Rossella, a beautiful young girl that lives in a family of popular class, looks for a job every day but soon discovers that the "greasy pole", which is the economic miracle, is only an illusion, and the world is far more ruthless than she could believe. But fate brings together Giuliano, the only man who did not ask for anything and who - like her - is not inclined to compromise.
Careless
Writer
Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and coquettish young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.
Boccaccio '70
Co-Writer
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.
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Screenplay
Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
Michelino 1A B
Writer