Film School: White Nights

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Film School: White Nights

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At the very least, you’ve seen his image. Kissing Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain. Wearing the hell out of a suit. Making smoking look devastatingly debonair. During the 1960s, Marcello Mastroianni was the coolest man in Italy—and (with the possible exception of Alain Delon), maybe even the whole of Europe.