Boccaccio '70

Italy 1962, 208 minutes
Dir. Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli
In Italian, English with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama, Comedy

Topics: Neo-realism.

Feat. Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Marisa Solinas, Sophia Loren

Aroview: Naughty for the time, this all-star portmanteau film is loosely based on updated versions of the bawdy stories of 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio.

Often shown without dir. Monicelli's segment outside of Italy, the filmmakers aimed to capture the earthy vulgarity of the source and succeed commendably. Fellini's 'The Temptation of Dr Antonio' see Anita Ekberg step out from a billboard to torment the titular character. Visconti's 'The Job' has Schneider play a housewife who makes her husband pay for sex. De Sica's 'The Raffle' has a timid man win sex as a prize. Monicelli's 'Renzo and Luciana' is a sex farce set around a young married couple.

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3 stars (Good Enough) In the Monicelli the young married couple put off a holiday to Venice to save money. They proclaim "Venice isn't going anywhere"- it brought on an unintended laugh. ~Tubbs