17 Jahre nach 8 1/2 tat sich Marcello Mastroianni erneut mit dem Maestro des italienischen Kinos, Federico Fellini, zusammen, um – wie sollte es anders sein – die Geschichte eines alternden Playboys zu erzählen, der in einem neuerdings feministischen Italien von allerlei Frauen heimgesucht wird.
A much-missed Ennio Morricone composed the score to this steamy Spanish-Italian sex film, starring a world-weary Marcello Mastroianni and a young Nastassja Kinski at the height of her charms. A cult erotic drama about incest, age gaps, and absent father figures that’s very much of its time!
Starring Burt Lancaster and Marcello Mastroianni, this past Palme d’Or contender is set in post-fascist Naples, where food prices are inflated but women’s bodies come cheap. War is often erotic in Liliana Cavani’s films—and here its economically, politically fraught aftermath plays out sexually too.