It has glamour, sophistication, color, wit and sensuality (not necessarily in that order), all of which blend very well in the enveloping air of a facility that is to be devoted to the showing of sophisticated films.
Boccaccio '70
The first 4-act motion picture ever presented!
1962 · 3h 24m · Unrated
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Vittorio De Sica
,
Federico Fellini
,
Luchino Visconti
,
Mario Monicelli
Overview
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Director and cast
- Vittorio De Sica Director
- Federico Fellini Director
- Luchino Visconti Director
- Mario Monicelli Director
- Marisa Solinas as Luciana (segment "Renzo e Luciana")
- Anita Ekberg as Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
- Romy Schneider as Pupe (segment "Il lavoro")
- Sophia Loren as Zoe (segment "La riffa")
- Germano Gilioli as Renzo (segment "Renzo e Luciana")
- Peppino De Filippo as Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
- Tomas Milian as Conte Ottavio (segment "Il lavoro")
- Alfio Vita as Cuspet (segment "La riffa")
- Luigi Giuliani as Gaetano (segment "La riffa")
- Romolo Valli Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
De Sica and Monicelli went for broader, more traditional comedic effect -- less pretentious, but perhaps inevitably in this company, less memorable.
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