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...surprisingly, Gina's Cupid is the pick of the lot. The other sexcerpts look to Boccaccio chiefly for borrowed glamour. Cupid, updated from an irreverent Decameron tale, retains the full flavor of its source, and suggests that the thing missing from most movies about sex is a master's touch...
...that during her celebrated "nude" scene she was wearing a flesh-colored coverall. Pending the outcome of charges that Lollo and her codefendants may have perpetrated an immoral exhibition, movie exhibitors everywhere are itching to unreel the evidence. It consists of a four-part comedy, vaguely inspired by The Decameron, in which a quartet of beauties with little on their minds and less on their bodies wriggle through a keyhole-art film of widely varied quality...
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 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 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...