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“Nina Rotti” has a specific sonic weight. “Nina” suggests intimacy—Nina Simone, Nina Hagen, the tragic heroine of Chekhov’s The Seagull . “Rotti,” on the other hand, is guttural, almost industrial; it recalls roti (bread) or rottweiler, or perhaps a corrupted Italian surname (Rotti as a variant of Rotti, meaning “broken”). Together, the name sounds like a character from a Euro-horror film of the 1970s: a forgotten giallo actress, a doomed lover in a Fassbinder melodrama, or a nightclub singer in a neo-noir that never got distribution. The absence of a real referent turns the name into a Rorschach test for the searcher’s own cinematic desires. Searching for- Nina Rotti in-All CategoriesMovi...