Word: lattuada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MANDRAGOLA. In Director Alberto Lattuada's romp through a Renaissance classic, some bold types carry out Machiavellian plots against the virtue of a Florentine beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino...
MANDRAGOLA. A cool Renaissance beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) defends her virtue to the next-to-last gasp but turns out to be a good loser in Italian Director Alberto Lattuada's lively version of Machiavelli's comedy...
MANDRAGOLA. Machiavelli's ribald Renaissance classic about a Florentine lady's virtue, directed with plenty of low period humor by Italy's Alberto Lattuada and played as high comedy by Rosanna Schiaffino and a sporty cast...
MANDRAGOLA. Machiavelli's ribald Renaissance classic about a Florentine lady's virtue, directed with plenty of low period humor by Italy's Alberto Lattuada and played as high comedy by Rosanna Schiaffino and a sporty cast...
Director Alberto Lattuada's actors are a gallery of perfectly chosen faces leering ever so faintly from a 16th century fresco. Dressed and undressed in sumptuous Renaissance style, or hatching intrigues among the cobblestones of two ancient Umbrian villages where the action was filmed, they look comfortably removed to another time. With a lusty feel for the broad, vulgar humor of the period, Lattuada adds a delectable scene at the public baths, where gentlemen voyeurs and unsuspecting ladies are suddenly desegregated by a collapsing wall. Making a new movie from an old play can easily bring both to ruin...