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Liliana Cavani – Al di là del bene e del male aka Beyond Good and Evil (1977)

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About the movie
Beyond Good and Evil (Italian: Al di là del bene e del male, UK title: Beyond Evil) is a 1977 drama film directed by Liliana Cavani. It stars Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson and Robert Powell. The film follows the intense relationship formed in the 1880s between Friedrich Nietzsche, Lou Salome and Paul Rée. This is the second part of “The German Trilogy” directed by Liliana Cavani. In The Night Porter she described connection between perversion and fascism. This time she describes life of Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher who wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil. Virna Lisi won Nastro d’Argento Best supporting Actress award Nastro d’Argento (Silver Ribbon) from the ‘Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists’.

Janet Maslin in THE NEW YORK TIMES
Friedrich (Fritz) Nietzsche, played by Erland Josephson, Lou Andreas- Salome (Dominique Sanda) and Paul Ree (Robert Powell), whose menage a trois is examined in Liliana Cavani’s ”Beyond Good and Evil,” are spending an evening together. Fritz dares Lou to take a vase off the piano and use it as a chamber pot; Lou, the oft-proclaimed free spirit of the three, calmly obliges. Then Lou and Paul couple on the floor, with an anguished Fritz looking on and finally grasping Paul’s hand. At last, weary of all the merriment, Lou pauses. ”Intellectuals!” she says.