A Night Full of Rain

A Night Full of Rain (La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia; literal English translation: The end of the world in our usual bed on a night full of rain) is a 1978 Italian American film directed by Lina Wertmüller and stars Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini.

Lina Wertmüller was nominated as best director at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival in 1978.

The plot concerns a romantic and heart-breaking relationship between a chauvinist Italian journalist and a feminist American photographer.

The film was shot in San Francisco and Rome and was the director's first film with original dialogue in the English language.

Plot
Two good looking lads meet while the girl is in a situation in some small Italian village. As they escape in an abandoned cloister, the man try to seduce the lady with manipulation techniques. As he makes fun of her, she refuses herself to him. and almost raping her. Randomly meeting later in San Francisco, the guy hits again on her and manage to seduce her to get married with a child. A troubled marriage for a troubled pair.

Cast

 * Giancarlo Giannini as Paolo
 * Candice Bergen as Lizzy
 * Michael Tucker as Friend
 * Mario Scarpetta as Friend
 * Lucio Amelio as Friend
 * Massimo Wertmüller as Friend
 * Anny Papa as Friend
 * Anne Byrne Hoffman as Friend
 * Flora Carabella as Friend
 * Anita Paltrinieri as Friend
 * Giuliana Carnescecchi as Friend
 * Alice Colombo Oxman as Friend
 * Jill Eikenberry
 * Paola Ojetti
 * Enzo Vitale
 * Paola Silvia Rotunno
 * John West Buchanan
 * Lilli Carati (as Ileana Caravati)
 * Alison Tucker

Reception
Film critic John Simon described A Night of Rain as an "almost total failure".