Word: boccaccio
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...Boccaccio '70 is scarcely the updated Decameron it tongue-in-cheekily professes to be, but sex goddesses Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider give highly erotitillating performances...
...Boccaccio '70 is an erotic movie triptych brilliantly but unevenly fashioned by Directors Fellini, Visconti and De Sica. Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider are the sex goddesses involved...
...this work the playwright drew on a number of sources ("Je prends mon bien ou je le trouve," he was fond of saying), including Aristophanes, Plautus, Boccaccio, and an earlier farce of his own. Added significance lies in the fact that Moliere was at the time having marital troubles of his own with his young adulterous wife Armande, which may account in part for the bitter tone of the play (though the title role itself is only sympathetic by comparison...
...Boccaccio '70 is an erotic movie tryptich brilliantly, but unevenly, fashioned by Italian Directors Fellini, Visconti and De Sica. Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider are the sex goddesses involved, and they are opulent and expert...
...Boccaccio '70 claims, ingenuously or disingenuously, to be the sort of thing the great Florentine would have written had he had to add an Eleventh Day to the Decameron in Italy in 1970. But Directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, each contributing a story to this motion picture triptych, give moviegoers not so much the unself-conscious bawdry of Boccaccio as the neopagan body worship that a witty Vatican editorialist recently styled "erotic vagrancy...