Agostina Belli Movies
- 1972
- R
Lina Wertmuller's fifth feature, The Seduction of Mimi, stars the director's favorite leading man, Giancarlo Giannini. Giannini plays the muddler of the title, who can't keep apace with the exigencies of a cruel, callous society (this character would be honed to perfection in Wertmuller's subsequent Seven Beauties); his political and sexual ignorance land him in hot water time and again. Wertmuller devotes much of the picture's running time to lengthy monologues and diatribes involving sex and politics; the film attained notoriety for its infamous sequence of Giannini bedding an obese woman. Wertmuller won a Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her work in this picture. Originally titled Mimi Mettalurgio Ferito nell'Onore, the film has also been released as Mimi the Metalworker and Wounded in Honor. It was remade (very loosely) by Richard Pryor as Which Way Is Up? (1977). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, (more)
- 1972
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Helmed by acknowledged horror master Lucio Fulci, the political satire All'onorevole Piacciono le Donne stars Lando Buzzanca as Gianni Pupis, a powerful politician who takes a fall in the public eye after his habit of slapping women on the behind leads him to humiliate a different country's leader, causing an international incident that leads Gianni to the church in hopes of rehabilitating his image. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1970
- R
A young woods-walking female scientist tangles with a roving murderer when she's just trying to do her job. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1970
A doctor turned detective (Claudio Gora) tries to cure a young alcoholic from his disturbing thoughts of suicide. David (Renaud Verley) is traumatized when a woman he picks up for sex kills herself in his presence. The doctor's only clues are the nude photos of the dead woman in various states of bondage. Knowing the killer must be the photographer, he hires a woman to pose for erotic pictures in an effort to locate the killer and stop the young man from sliding into irrevocable insanity. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bruno Cremer, Renaud Verley, (more)
