A love that is overwhelming I watched the movie “Golden Ridge Glasses” solely because of my favorite actor Philip Noiret. An outstanding master. Unfortunately, in the USSR and Russia not so many films with his participation were in the box office.
And here's Philip Noiret. In this film, he is a respected, sweet doctor who has worked all his life in the Italian city of Ferrara. At first it is not clear what the film is about. 1938. Fascism in Italy is gaining strength, the persecution of Jews begins. A movie about that? Is this a historical film?
Suddenly, it turns out that a strange smiling doctor is fascinated by a young student. The doctor comes to watch the boxing fight of his friend, and after the fight accidentally wanders into the shower room, where he sees this guy completely naked, and we, the audience, together with the doctor, see this young body, beautiful muscles and a protruding penis.
Wow! Such naturalism. Why? It is clear that the film is about this: the doctor, it turns out, has a non-traditional sexual orientation.
Oh, no! I didn't want Philippe Noiret to play gay. No, it's not his role, it's not his. .
But the film already captured me and did not let go. The great actor indescribably subtly played the feelings of an elderly lover. Here he appears with his friend in public, becomes the laughing stock of society, and then becomes an outcast. Their relationship seems to have remained platonic. The doctor cannot control himself and arranges in public to clarify the relationship with the student. No, perhaps this scene suggests that they were lovers.
I was worried that this young bastard would somehow frame the doctor.
The doctor is alone again. Accidentally sees his friend in a bar, and ... on the face of Philip Noiret such genuine suffering. Anyone who has experienced unrequited love in life can feel it. In this one picture there is such an abyss of suffering. My wife, who I was watching this movie with, said: God, how do they feel?
And he finished me off with an episode where the doctor hides a picture of a boxer in the ring. Instead of hating him, he paints him.
Mother's name, it's something fantastic, incomprehensible! The next day I was thinking about this movie, this doctor. What an amazing soulful image!