Episode 734: Love Circle (1969)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Passions swirl and reality bends in Love Circle (1969), the intoxicating tale of desire, deception, and dangerous games from writer/director Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. Also known as Metti, Una Sera a Cena (Suppose One Night at Dinner), this stylish drama follows a celebrated writer, Michele (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who concocts intricate fantasies about his wife Nina (Florinda Bolkan) and his best friend Max (Tony Musante). But what if his imaginings aren’t so imaginary?

Mike White, Spencer Parsons, and David A. Heath dissect this sultry, surreal web of passion, joined by Andrei Idu, who requested the film as part of our month of Patreon picks. With a screenplay co-written by Dario Argento and an unforgettable score by Ennio Morricone, Love Circle is a hypnotic blend of psychosexual intrigue and high-art aesthetics.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off.
0:24.6	Turn it off. Nina. Nina?
0:40.3	Nina? Joanna? No.
0:56.0	No. Rick. Rick.
1:11.6	No. I'm I'm I'm
1:28.3	I'm
1:29.3	I'm I've let's all right now. I've let't
1:47.0	all right
1:49.0	I'm not
1:52.0	the mass of Mao.
1:53.0	Let's the massim of Mao.
1:54.0	Sure, figure it.
1:56.0	Dall the first to the last, I don't see it now.
1:58.0	Ah, that's a good idea.
2:00.0	But that's China and China. No, what a good idea. But, but you know,
2:00.8	China is China?
2:02.9	No,
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