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Necessary Love

1991 film by Fabio Carpi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ18391639 ↗
Source-derived summary

Necessary Love (Italian: L'amore necessario) is a 1991 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Fabio Carpi. It was screened in competition at the 48th Venice International Film Festival.

Plot

Cast

Ben Kingsley as Ernesto

Marie-Christine Barrault as Valentina

Ann-Gisel Glass as Diana

Malcolm Conrath as Giacomo

Silvia Mocci as Maddalena

Geoffrey Bayldon as Bernardo

Maria Laborit as Macha

Marie-Laurence as Sofia

Néstor Garay as Mr.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Necessary Love” as 1991 film by Fabio Carpi. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Necessary, Love and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Necessary, Love and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Necessary Love”, the useful work is to connect “1991 film by Fabio Carpi” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18391639. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Necessary Love” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.