Word: boccaccio
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...life before the cameras. She has few interests outside her working life. She drives herself through film after film, collapsing in bed for four days after each one, then starting in on another. She has three new pictures completed (Five Miles to Midnight, Madame Sans Gêne, Boccaccio '70) and five more in preparation (To the Victors, A Shot in the Dark, Of Human Bondage, Moll Flanders, The Prisoners of Altona...
...Vittorio De Sica, who understands and intensifies the natural light that shines from her. "In spite of having the usual womanly defects," says De Sica chivalrously, "she is the only really spiritually honest woman I have ever known." From Gold of Naples to Two Women and her episode in Boccaccio '70, he has directed her in many films. Under poor direction, most of them could have proved merely tawdry - mere smirking, leering, petty triumphs of voyeurism, like American cheesecake. Sex to the European eye is more interesting and less adolescent. De Sica has used Sophia's body...
...doesn't enter into it. Our cinema is more precarious, but our people have in dividualism. Hollywood is in danger of fossilization." There is no fossilization in Boccaccio '70, in which Sophia is again la dònna popolana, playing an illiterate Neapolitan girl who works in a traveling fair and delivers her body each Saturday night to the winner of a raffle. The fair itself is alive with superb detail, from the smallest of watermelon seeds to the largest of the paunchy Italian farmers with hot breath and sausage fingers. In this milieu, Sophia...
...Vatican has greeted the film with an E rating-which would stand for Excommunication if celluloid had a soul, but in reality means Extra-Money-at-the-Box-Office. Boccaccio '70 proved the point by grossing more than $200,000 in its first ten days, milking the Italian population at an even more prodigious rate than La Dolce Vita...
...Honey. When the Italians saw all that-at Milan's world première of the Italian cinema's long-anticipated Boccaccio '70-they burst forth, some with catcalls and derisive whistles, others with cheers. Produced by Carlo Ponti, husband of Sophia Loren, Boccaccio '70 tells four stories. None derive from the Decameron that Giovanni Boccaccio wrote six centuries ago, but they are designed as modern reflections of Boccaccio's lusty humanism, and the '70 of the title is a wild hope that the film will still be running eight years from now. Judged...