Le Stagioni del nostro amore / Padre di famiglia

Saimel presents on this CD the world premiere release of two haunting and beautiful scores by Carlo Rustichelli which were written in 1966 and 1967 for two different films which both dealt with the transformation of the Italian society during the economic boom of the mid 1960s and the loss of post-war ideals and values, one in the form of a gloomy introverted drama, the other as a sarcastic melancholic comedy:

Saimel presents on this CD the world premiere release of two haunting and beautiful scores by Carlo Rustichelli which were written in 1966 and 1967 for two different films which both dealt with the transformation of the Italian society during the economic boom of the mid 1960s and the loss of post-war ideals and values, one in the form of a gloomy introverted drama, the other as a sarcastic melancholic comedy.

Le stagioni del nostro amore (1966) was directed by Florestano Vancini, who had begun as a documentarist during the early 1950s, and had an excellent cast of Italian and French actors with Enrico Maria Salerno, Anouk Aimée, Jacqueline Sassard and Gian Maria Volonté.

Padre di famiglia (1967) was the fourth collaboration between the composer and the director Nanni Loy, a keen observer of Italian reality. In this comedy, starring by Nino Manfredi, Leslie Caron and Ugo Tognazzi, shows the life of an ideal couple, to talk about the transformation of the institution of the Italian family during the 1960s, changing the traditional image of the father (the ''padre di famiglia'') who in this case gets replaced by the mother.