La Noia is a 1963 film, directed by Damiano Damiani and based on the novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia.
Dino, a painter for pleasure, has not painted for some time due to boredom. A wealthy fatherless scion, he lives a flat existence devoid of novelty. Leaving his villa on Via Appia, Dino takes a studio on Via Margutta, maintained by his maternal possessions. Next door lives an elderly painter, Balestrieri, who probably dies of an illness after intense sexual intercourse with his 17-year-old model-lover Cecilia. Dino begins a sexual relationship with the girl, but just as, assailed by boredom, he contemplates leaving her, Cecilia fails to show up for her usual appointment. The girl admits to dating an unemployed actor, Luciani, and a sudden feeling of possession arises in Dino. After several stalkings and scenes of jealousy, Dino gets into the habit of paying the girl after their dates, with the money he had always underestimated and despised. The situation degenerates when, in order to prevent Cecilia from leaving for a stay in Capri with her lover, Dino proposes to her, receiving a sharp refusal. Anguished, Dino attempts suicide by crashing his car into a wall. But he wakes up in the hospital and decides to start a new life, regaining contact with reality and reestablishing his relationship with his mother. Cecilia, after being left by Luciani, returns to Rome and discovers that Dino is now free from the chains of boredom.
Source
Genre: drama
Cast
Catherine Spaak: Cecilia
Horst Buchholz: Dino
Bette Davis: mother of Dino
Georges Wilson: Cecilia’s father
Luis Bacalov soundtrack
