Inspector Montalbano
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rlw said:
I thought that most of the characters were immediately recognizable
Oh I don't disagree, they were. I just expected a cast that would be vaguely similar in looks & build though. I mean come on, Montalbano is a short stocky bald bloke! people don't change that much in 8 years
I guess I need to look at it in the same way as Wallander, three different productions and so three different casts.
Bit of a thread resurrection, but Young Montalbano was on BBC4 on Saturday night and I haven't seen it before. Though I've seen the Inspector Montalbano episodes. There's inconsistency with Montalbano's age. In a 2013 episode of Inspector Montalbano, Livia reminds him over the phone that it's his 50th birthday and he argues he's only 49. In Young Montalbano, set in 1990, he reminds a police commissioner about a fight they had 13 years before when he was a 20 year old university student and the commissioner an officer. That would make Montalbano 33 then and 56 in 2013. The show is good but they need nerdy people to get the cars and other attention to detail correct.
Most of the characters seem recognisable as their younger selves and the show tells you how Montalbano first came to know them. Catarella has been introduced with the suggestion he has a hearing problem, which is why he gets words and names wrong, and he's been put in charge of answering the phone. Livia hasn't been introduced though. His girlfriend in the first episode is someone called Mery.
Most of the characters seem recognisable as their younger selves and the show tells you how Montalbano first came to know them. Catarella has been introduced with the suggestion he has a hearing problem, which is why he gets words and names wrong, and he's been put in charge of answering the phone. Livia hasn't been introduced though. His girlfriend in the first episode is someone called Mery.
A second series of Young Montalbano finished last night,with quite a harrowing conclusion.
Salvo was supposed to be moving to Genoa to be with Livia but the real life car bombing of mafia judge Falcone was being reported on tv and radio and Livia told Salvo on the phone,he needs to stay in Sicily.
Sad end to a humourous series.
Salvo was supposed to be moving to Genoa to be with Livia but the real life car bombing of mafia judge Falcone was being reported on tv and radio and Livia told Salvo on the phone,he needs to stay in Sicily.
Sad end to a humourous series.
woodypup59 said:
Some lovely girls tho , particularly the disappearing bar maid in last weeks episode.
The young Livia, Sarah Felberbaum, is actually the partner of an Italian footballer, Daniele De Rossi.Edited by woodypup59 on Monday 8th February 15:12
Andrea Camilleri wrote historical novels that only sold moderately well until he decided to write something a little easier. That was an Inspector Montalbano novel. It was so successful his publishers didn't want anything else. He was 70 when he wrote his first one so he only found his great success quite late in life. Though he's doing well for an apparently heavy smoker at 90.
The programme about him is on iPlayer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b070jhq4/mont...
Blakewater said:
Thanks
Yay!
Plenty of laugh-out-loud funny - Mimi and Catarella especially!
Typical Salvo trick to catch the perp, so transparent - but we loved it all the same. Mrs Beano commented that it was like slipping back into a comfortable old cardigan (even the really grating music seems familiar!)
More than the sum of its parts, as ever!
Plenty of laugh-out-loud funny - Mimi and Catarella especially!
Typical Salvo trick to catch the perp, so transparent - but we loved it all the same. Mrs Beano commented that it was like slipping back into a comfortable old cardigan (even the really grating music seems familiar!)
More than the sum of its parts, as ever!
Was interesting to spot how much the area around his house (and the house itself) has been gentrified recently with all the tourism. And the Uno is looking a bit like a treasured museum piece too.
Still good entertainment, can't think of anything else that sneaks in so much subtle comedy.
Still good entertainment, can't think of anything else that sneaks in so much subtle comedy.
Caught up with this tonight.
For starters ,his Tipo looks in better condition than I remember.
His girlfriend ,Livia has changed actress ,again ,looked it up on Wikipedia ,seems there has been 3 different actresses have played
her over 10 series ,also a different woman voiced her for some reason......
Enjoyed it anyway.....
For starters ,his Tipo looks in better condition than I remember.
His girlfriend ,Livia has changed actress ,again ,looked it up on Wikipedia ,seems there has been 3 different actresses have played
her over 10 series ,also a different woman voiced her for some reason......
Enjoyed it anyway.....
Blakewater said:
Bit of a thread resurrection, but Young Montalbano was on BBC4 on Saturday night.....
In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.....!
Yeah anyway, I think I got about half an hour into one Young Montalbano and couldn't stomach it. Blehh. As for "old" Montalbano, well that's one of the best series ever.
Truckosaurus said:
lucido grigio said:
...also a different woman voiced her for some reason......
I assume that's for Sicilian dialect reasons...The others are Italian Swiss - Katharina Böhm, and Swedish - Lina Perned (and the Young Montalbano "Livia" - Sarah Felberbaum - is English).
Edited by gareth_r on Sunday 3rd September 18:10
gareth_r said:
Truckosaurus said:
lucido grigio said:
...also a different woman voiced her for some reason......
I assume that's for Sicilian dialect reasons...The others are Italian Swiss - Katharina Böhm, and Swedish - Lina Perned (and the Young Montalbano "Livia" - Sarah Felberbaum - is English).
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