Boccaccio '70

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Audience Member Generally enjoyable diverse set of one-act films which are visually gorgeous despite being dramatically lightweight overall. Wonderful way to see glamour of Ekberg and Loren and Schneider in one film Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member three tales about the attraction and power of women Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Boccaccio 70 is light Italian comedy / drama. The short films are entertaining and the women are good-looking. While these films are not among the greatest of the era, if you enjoyed La Dolce Vita, for example, for the Italian charm and spirit, then you will likely enjoy the Boccaccio films as well. They are not classics but they are good to watch. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member This review is for the Fellini short "The Temptation of Dr. Antonio." The funniest Fellini and still manages to incorporate all his themes. Ridiculously fun while still having a Fellini twist. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review s r All four of these tales are Italian to the core. Romy Schneider, Anita Ekberg and Sophia Lauren, need I say more? Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Boccacio was a 14th century Italian poet, storyteller and humanist who among other works wrote "Decameron", a collection of licentious stories which is very much appreciated even nowadays. In 1962 four great Italian film directors (Monicelli, Fellini, Visconti and de Sica) made this movie in four episodes (each one by one of them) inspired on the same theme of Bocaccio's work i.e. erotic love in our times under several of its forms: marital, repressed, adulterous and paid for. It combines Monicelli's humour with Fellini's symbolism, Visconti's psychological realism and de Sica's social and moral satire. In my opinion the best episode is de Sica's one, the story of a beautiful woman (Sophia Loren) who runs a shooting sideshow in a funfair. The less good is perhaps Visconti's one story of a rich couple whose wife revenges herself of her husband's infidelity in a curious and elegant way because of somewhat dull dialogues which is however compensated by the gorgeous interior sceneries of the palace where his episode takes place like he has already made us familiar with in some of his other movies. All the episodes combine humour, sensuality and light drama in balanced doses and will undoubtedly please the viewers. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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