There can't be many other films about a man who falls in love with a midget. So this is of particular interest, and only an arbitrarily allegorical (and unacceptable) ending mars Maria Luisa Bemberg's treatment of the theme. Marcello Mastroianni is the much-travelled, middle-aged man in a small Argentinian town of the 1940s who falls passionately for the dwarf daughter (charming Alejandra Podesta) of one of the town's leading dowager widows (Luisina Brando). Always fearing the worst for the girl, Brando silences all talk of her size, but never quite realises her daughter is capable of claiming her own place in the community - something that makes the climax all the more improbable and artificially contrived. A film of moments, though, none more effective - or affecting - than when Mastroianni and Podesta dance at their wedding, he holding his tiny bride high in the air.


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