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...VISITA. An ad in a lonely-hearts column brings together a small-town spinster (Sandra Milo) and a middle-aged clerk (Francois Perier), who within a single day meet, quarrel, make love and go their separate lonely ways again...
Down with the Venus of Milo. The transformation was often painfully crude. Kangaroo courts convened in the streets and meted out embarrassing punishment to anyone guilty of associating with foreigners. Doctors, for example, were forced to walk on their knees in the gutters because they had treated foreign patients. At Peking University, Red Guards encouraged students to spit on their professors. In Shanghai, two professors were forced to parade naked in front of the students...
...Peking embassy by holding a huge picture of Mao across the driveway. Other Guards rampaged through a large apartment building housing families of some 100 foreign diplomats and pasted a portrait of Mao on each apartment door. Red Guards tossed confiscated art objects, including replicas of the Venus de Milo and Apollo, onto bonfires...
...Visita. Pina (Sandra Milo) is a small-town spinster with hair like yesterday's escarole and a bottom the size of a hope chest. Adolfo (Francois Perier) is a big-city bachelor with a discouraged mustache and legs like fuzzy yellow pencils. They meet after he answers her ad in a lonely-hearts column, and in this sad, hilarious, faultless little film by Italy's Antonio Pietrangeli, they begin and end in a single day the least hopeful attempt at pairing since the dish ran away with the spoon...
...makes his way to the searchers' rendezvous. There, in a disused outhouse the python plops down to crush him-and inadvertently knocks from the eaves a shoe box containing 10,000 long-abandoned dollars. The hunt completed, the python slain, the treasure delivered to its rightful inheritor, Milo discovers that there is more to life than the gift of genital...