#mariella(goncharov)
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listen I love all of the Goncharov-posting. I love the Andrey and Goncharov shit and I’m such a fan of Katya and Sofia. But can we talk about Mariella??
I know she has a smaller role in the movie—she’s just a woman, a wife, fulfilling her marital and social duties. But that’s why she is so, so important as a contrast to the two other women in this movie, and I’m gonna talk at length about why.
Sofia is a young woman from a lower-class background. Katya is her immediate foil—a young woman from old money and a wife besides. Other folks have already gone into the tension between them (not to mention the iconic restaurant scene with the pearls) so I won’t spend too much time there.
But here’s the thing: they both mirror Mariella. She’s an older woman—a wife, like Katya—but from a lower-class background like Sofia. She represents a possible future for both young women; she’s who Sofia could become, if she married into the mob and fought her way up the social ladder. But she also represents a future for Katya: an older woman, still running around the same social circles, still devoted to the same things, the same tasks. And it’s her devotion to her duties that ultimately dooms her in the second half.
So much of this movie is about time—specifically, running out of it. Goncharov and Andrey have always been out of time, and it’s obviously why the clock scene is so iconic. But this movie is also about being stuck in time, and working to break out of it. Mariella is stuck running out her clock doing the same things, over and over, without the chance to do something different.
Personally? I think that it’s Mariella’s death that spurs Katya to make the choices she makes. She sees what happens when people are stuck in time, doing the same thing over and over—and so she decides to change her fate. To do something bold and brave and Different. Something makes that choice and that change for Katya, and I personally believe that it’s seeing the death of someone who has only ever done what was expected of her.
#goncharov#katya goncharov#sofia goncharov#martin scorsese#mariella goncharov#long post#this is the best improv thing I’ve ever been a part of#unreality
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Accoding to tumblr, Mariella (Goncharov, 1973) is neither dead nor alive but a secret third thing
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who needs good grades when you can spend every waking moment trying to piece together a timeline for a movie that doesn't exist based on the handful of crumbs of collectively hallucinated agreed-upon lore found on tumblr dot com
#goncharov#goncharev#goncherov#gonchposting#gonchorov#katya x sofia#katya goncharov#katya michailov#sofia goncharov#mario ambrosini#valery michailov#andrey goncharov#ice pick joe#mariella caruso
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I’ve been scrolling the goncharov (1973) tag for 84 years and I haven’t seen even one single post about Mariella. Wow. I guess you all think she was just a prop for Ice pick Joe’s backstory???
Anyway does anyone have a pattern for that sweater she was wearing when she died?
#knitting#goncharov#goncharov (1973)#I need it#like burning#mariella#ice pick joe#was hoping the goncharov revival would show my girl some more love but here we are
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I was telling my grandma about how tumblr has become obsessed with the 1973 cult classic Goncharov, and then SHE SAYS SHE WORKED ON THE FILM?
She was a costume designer in the late 60s/ early 70s. She lost a lot of her early sketches in some flooding a few years back, but she said she remembered the early designs for Katya and Mariella. She painted this piece up in like... 20 minutes.
The costumes from the party scene in the film are a little bit different, but you can see a lot of her ideas in what they actually went with. Also, I'm obsessed with the symbolism of Mariella's blue gloves and the blue hem of Katya's gown.
She said her designs for Sofia's party dress were done a lot later because that character was only added in the final iteration of the script.
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In honor of the 1 50 year anniversary of Goncharov, I wanted to write just a little thing about my favorite underappreciated side character. Mariella deserves so much better than what she got.
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Mariella gasped awake, clutching at her midsection.
Katya shot her.
Mariella, drenched in Sofia's blood had grabbed her lover’s gun. Before she could even attempt to aim, the second shot rang out. A lance of pain streaked through her as the clocktower began to chime. She sank to her knees on the wet flagstones on the bridge and felt the life pouring from her. The last thing she saw was Sofia's glazed eyes. The last word on her lips was Sofia's name.
The clocktower, now distant, rang. She stared at the ceiling of her bedroom, tears prickling in the corners of her eyes.
It was Monday again. The clock was chiming with the sunrise.
Mariella pressed the heels of her hands against her eyes. How many times had she woken up in this bed, on this day? How many times had she been around this loop?
She had lost count a long time ago.
Each time was different, as if she were trapped in a story with a thousand authors who couldn't agree on the details.
She wasn't even the main character of whatever this story was. She couldn't explain it if she wanted to, but over the grind of endless living the same week over and over, it had become clear that she was just a minor side character. Someone who existed in the background, along for the ride in someone else's narrative.
She rolled out of bed and stared into the distance.
“What do you want from me?” she asked the universe for perhaps the millionth time.
She didn't think about trying to end it. She had tried. She had tried and tried and tried. But invariably, death simply delivered her back to this moment.
Perhaps she had been dead this whole time. Perhaps this was hell.
She was doomed to relive the same five days, doomed to fall in love with a woman with impossibly twisted loyalties, a woman who herself fell in love with a monster, a monster by choice rather than necessity, but a monster nonetheless.
Even after this eternity, Mariella could remember being a schoolgirl on holiday in the countryside. She could remember meeting Katya, she could remember falling in love.
She could remember their reunion, years later. She could remember the unease, the vague wariness of meeting the woman that girl had become.
The door to her flat opened. Joe was here, bearing eggs and bread and sweet apples from the market.
Might as well start again, she murmured to herself and drifted like a wraith to the kitchen.
Joe was at the stove, his back to her as it always was.
“Hello, sister dearest. Do you want breakfast?”
The boss wants you to work late tonight, Mariella recited silently.
“Boss wants me to work late tonight,” Joe said, without turning from the stove. “Might be a busy week.”
He did turn them, a crooked grin on his face. He stilled at the sight of her. Something dangerous flashed in his eyes. Something she never noticed or questioned before the day after tomorrow.
Why do they call you Icepick Joe?
The question had been innocent enough at the beginning, but she had seen too much, lived through this week too many times.
He studied her a moment.
“There someone I need to pay a visit?”
The woman I love is going to kill you in four days.
Or he was going to kill her.
Both of them would be dead by Friday in either case.
Sofia would kill Joe. Katya would kill Sofia. Or Goncharov would kill Sofia. Or Andrey.
It was always the same. Every. Single. Time.
She wanted to scream. She wanted to fall to her knees and howl until her throat was raw.
Every single person Mariella ever loved would-
The phone rang.
Mariella flinched.
The phone never rang. Not in all the times she had lived through this morning.
It rang again.
She stared at it.
“You going to get that?” Joe called over his shoulder.
With trembling hands, she picked up the receiver and raised it to her her.
“Mari?”
Her breath caught in her throat and she nearly staggered.
That voice haunted her dreams, it haunted every waking thought.
She wasn't supposed to hear that voice for the first time until that evening.
She cast a glance at Joe, who was no doubt listening very intently.
“It's… it's me,” she said, trying to keep the tremor out of her voice. “I'm here.”
“Mariella, what the fuck is going on?”
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omg i just watched goncharov (1973) absolutely life changing
i have adopted goncharov as a blorbo but especially mariella???? omg
it took me over a decade to realize mariella was LIZA FUCKING MINELLI lol i was just very clueless. everybody knows her for her super-dark dark-haired 'mod' cabaret look (she had JUST won the cabaret oscar right before Goncharov came out, i don't think i realized that until i was checking wikipedia for this ask) and in Goncharov she's got that long straight hair that doesn't really make sense for the time period, and honestly makes liza minelli look unnervingly like her mother (judy garland) in Meet Me In Saint Louis
anyway that dress she wears when she finally gets to sing in the nightclub right before everything goes to shit was kiiiiind of a sexual awakening for me? i didn't get any of the contrast of her youthful yet already-doomed dream of fame and fortune with katya's struggle to let go of the power she commanded as a mafioso's wife back in torino, i was just like. omg boobs sparkly
(there was no way i was old enough to watch the movie, i was like, 10 and i barely remembered it, my grandma feel asleep on the couch and it was playing on TV lol)
anyway yes stan mariella! now that I'm an adult i do think sofia is way hotter, for obvious reasons, but the subplot of mariella's youthful aspirations in the background while the older characters are all fucking each other up is honestly refreshing and the movie would be needlessly dark without her imo.
i do believe that in a modern AU she'd be an aspiring influencer. her first big break viral happens right before some kind of global disaster that resets all the hashtags 😭
#goncharov#mariella#also known as 'woman singing'#the embarassing part is that cybill shepherd was YOUNGER than liza minelli in this movie but they still play katya as the more matronly??#i guess a carryover from theater#fandom#film#commentary#unreality#dove.txt
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Can we just talk about how dirty Mariella was done by Scorsese? Like Katya was a fully-formed character, even Sofia had a compelling story line, but Mariella's LITERALLY only there to die so Goncharov has a reason to go comfort Andrey. Yeah she's pretty badass in the park scene but then like five seconds later she's on her deathbed from a broken heart? Seriously??? My girl is a mafioso's wife, there's no way she wouldn't be tougher than that.
And don't even get me started on the way they hint at her history with Ambrosini and then never mention it again to the point where he skips her funeral to help Sofia track down Katya.
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I’m not out here trying to start Softya vs Katiella ship discourse but I’m just saying
Mariella’s still alive
Katya didn’t kill her
You know, like she did Sofia
#goncharov (1973)#katya#sofia#mariella(goncharov)#I’m in rarepair hell someone back me up here#softya#katiella
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Like I know why she died but Mariella’s death still shakes me up a bit tbh :/
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Scrolling through the Goncharov tag trying to figure out if Mariella is dead or alive
#goncharov#mariella#i speak#ahsnsnsnsjsjs help#'she died tragically'#next post: 'at least she's still alive'#mm
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Okay I just took the Which Goncharov character are you quiz and guys I got Mariella. I mean...
She was such a strong character with not enough screentime in my opinion. Wish we could see more what she was like behind closed doors. I feel like she has depths to her character that weren't quite fleshed out. I wish we could see her in an actual happy relationship. But at least she's alive and still fighting for what she believes in. And don't even get me started about that scene in the park!!!!
Petition for Martin Scorsese to make a sequel? Or even a prequel! Would be fun to see what the kids are up to, or how the main characters grew up to become such complicated individuals.
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screencap redraw: Mariella on the dock
“Looking for this?”
#goncharov#goncharov (1973)#unreality#mariella#ice pick joe#screencap redraw#most overlooked scene#art#my art
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Nothing gets me more than the scene where Ice Pick Joe admits his love for Mariella when he is dying in her arms. Like I know he's a terrible serial killer and stabs people with an ice pick, but come on! The soft "You were the spring in the icy winter of my life." As she holds him crying. Nothing gets me more!
#goncharov mariella#goncharov (1973)#ice pick joe#goncharov#goncharov ice pick joe#unreality#my abominable posts
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For real though, Donna Mariella's death in the park scene is an poignant reminder that all she ever wanted was to keep Sofia safe from the horrors of the mafia world, and her willingness to face down her own inevitable death and throw away the security of the entire mafia family in an effort to do that is all the more tragic when you realize that Sofia had already gotten so involved with Katya that her mother's efforts were in vain. Say what you will about her being cold or harsh, but her keeping Sofia away from that part of herself that she'd been forced to carry after the death of her husband was her way of trying to give Sofia a fresh start, and her death out of love is one of the most tragic imo.
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