A Night Full of Rain (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

An American tourist, her head full of Marcuse and radical politics, gets involved in a violent confrontation during a Catholic procession in a small Italian village, seeking to protect an Italian girl. An Italian man, attracted to her, tries to help. As they escape to a magnificent abandoned cloister, the man, a communist, tries to seduce the American by quoting Dante. She refuses him when she realizes his insincerity, and he ends up almost raping her, but she escapes. Randomly meeting later in San Francisco, the guy hits on her again and eventually they get married. Their marriage however is troubled.

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Reception

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