Boccaccio '70

1962
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3h 25m

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7.0/10

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Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, and Romy Schneider in Boccaccio '70 (1962)

A bigot obsesses over the gigantic poster of a voluptuous pin-up, a married woman finds a way of dealing with her husband's passion for call-girls, a sacristan wins a night with a beautiful fairground woman in a village lottery and a married couple's mishap enables them to buy their own house. Four of the greatest Italian directors - Fellini, Visconti, De Sica and Monicelli - join forces with show-stoppers Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider in a carousel of sex and satire mocking the mores of Italian 60's society...

Four arresting tales of women's empowerment and the sexual revolution in Italy's 1960s boom years. This light-hearted hymn to life is presented for the first time in both English and original Italian, with improved subtitles, and shown here as originally intended by the filmmakers in the original widescreen film format - now in restored HD.

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Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

5.3K

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Anita Ekberg

Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")

Sophia Loren

Zoe (segment "La riffa")

Romy Schneider

Pupe (segment "Il lavoro")

Marisa Solinas

Luciana (segment "Renzo e Luciana")

Germano Gilioli

Renzo (segment "Renzo e Luciana")

Peppino De Filippo

Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")

Tomas Milian

Conte Ottavio (segment "Il lavoro")
(as Thomas Milian)

Romolo Valli

Lawyer Zacchi (segment "Il lavoro")

Luigi Giuliani

Gaetano (segment "La riffa")

Alfio Vita

Cuspet (segment "La riffa")

Antonio Acqua

Commendatore La Pappa (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
(uncredited)

Nando Angelini

Man Winning a Bottle (segment "La riffa")
(uncredited)

Silvio Bagolini

Secretary of Monsignore (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
(uncredited)

Ciccio Barbi

Engineer in the Car (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
(uncredited)

Lars Bloch

Red Priest (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
(uncredited)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico

(segment "Renzo e Luciana")
(uncredited)

Ermelinda De Felice

Donna che balla di sera sotto il manifesto della ekberg
(uncredited)

Donatella Della Nora

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Featured review

9/10

Finally out on DVD !!!! But...

Words are not enough for this wonderful quadruple satire. Yes, in the beginning there were FOUR, but the Mario Monicelli story got cut to economize on time. It is the least funny but very compelling tale of two newlyweds finding no space or time to be alone together. A beautiful story.

On the DVD distributed by the Dutch label Homescreen all 4 stories are included. Very odd though, it is a widescreen version, but from the top & bottom there are layers missing. So all the players standing up, get there heads chopped of. Astonishing, and very irritating. The sound every now and then echos, which is bad too. And the only subtitles available are in Dutch...

But to see these wonderful tales again, of Fellini, Visconti, De Sica & Monicelli, and to see Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren & Anita Ekberg play so majestically, might be well worth it to forget about the technical problems of this DVD. And let's simply hope CRITERION can obtain the rights shortly, for they will surely do this fourfold little miracle justice...

wobelix
Nov 11, 2003
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Trivia
Federico Fellini's segment, "Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio", was his first work in colour.

Quotes
Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio"): When I move my hips, convents shake.

Alternate versions
The original Italian version had four segments and was 210 minutes long. The segment "Renzo e Luciana" directed by Mario Monicelli was removed in the US version.