The deeds of young Ernest Hemingway on Italy during the First World War, and his already well-known and unfortunate love relation with an also young nurse, serve him as the plot base for his famous novel A Farewell to Arms, filmed twice [in 1932, directed by Frank Borzage, and in 1957, directed by Charles Vidor], and at the same time as reference and sustenance for the biographic-noveled work on which is based In Love And War, Richard Attenborough's new film. Using the three basic elements of the plot (Love, War, Italy), the score of englishman George Fenton shows again his best musical qualities (sensibility, elegance, a sense of wholeness), but at the same time remarks his usual deficiencies (melodies and developments of greater stature, certain absence of force along the movie), which, on the other side, could be no other thing than a inherent trademark of his style. Anyway, Fenton goes on forwardly, and maybe some day he will deliver us with that definitive score which we are so eagerly waiting for. A.L.

/ RCA VICTOR 09026-68725-2 / 51'