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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jun. 10, 1966 | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Virtue Besieged | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

MAFIOSO. Director Alberto Lattuada fills in the background with some gloriously garlicky slices of provincial Sicilian life, while Comedian Alberto Sordi struggles soberly with the insidious Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 21, 1964 | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

MAFIOSO. Director Alberto Lattuada fills in the background with some gloriously garlicky slices of provincial Sicilian life while Comedian Alberto Sordi struggles soberly with the insidious Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 14, 1964 | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

MAFIOSO. Back to Sicily, where Director Alberto Lattuada fills the background with some gloriously garlicky slices of provincial life while Comedian Alberto Sordi struggles soberly with the insidious Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: : Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

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