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...Talk About Women is a comedy about nine Italian men. All of them are played by Vittorio Gassman (The Easy Life), an actor of great charm and almost inexhaustible versatility, who seems determined to prove that the legendary Latin lover is really just a big blob of mozzarella. In his fall collection of heavy breathers, the evidence sure is persuasive...
...Gassman's Roman rakes include: 1) a dolt who goes home with a prostitute and finds that she is married to an old school chum; 2) a sodden playboy whose haymate, ample Antonella Lualdi, tumbles out of bed just in time to get dressed for her wedding; 3) an impatient Lothario who checks into a motel and seduces the chambermaid while his peevish girl friend waits in the car; 4) a barkeep who saves carfare by hitching a ride home every night with a car-couching whore, hops out at his front door feeling cheap but chaste...
...EASY LIFE. One of the funniest-and saddest-Italian films in years offers Vittorio Gassman as a flashy Roman playboy whose jetaway pace spells disaster for a shy young law student...
...EASY LIFE. In this brilliant tragicomedy from Italy, Vittorio Gassman is the hedonistic hell-raiser who rescues a shy young student from his books, squanders his money, and seals his doom...
Amazingly enough, the cliche is convincing on the screen. One reason clearly is Vittorio Gassman, who plays Bruno with such vitality and abandon that the playboy's frenzy to "live every minute" seems only partially pathetic. Such a life can be rich and genuinely enjoyable. His experiences are no more superficial than most experiences in life...