Dino Mele

Dino Mele played the troubled youth in Patroni Griffi's 1963 film 'Il Mare', also starring Umberto Orsini and Françoise Prévost. It tells the story of three unrelated people who visit Capri in the winter. We learn little of their backgrounds - one is an actor, the woman owns a house on Capri. As with other Italian films of the time e.g. Antonioni, there is a sense of alienation, the camera often focusing on only one person when all three are present. Ultimately nothing emerges from their meeting together, the woman and the youth leave the island. In the meantime they have shared their sense of aloneness and isolation. This film is not available on DVD at the time of writing but the complete version with English subtitles has recently been added to YouTube (2017).