Word: sica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boccaccio '70 is an erotic movie triptych brilliantly but unevenly fashioned by Directors Fellini, Visconti and De Sica. Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider are the sex goddesses involved...
Boccaccio '70 is an erotic movie tryptich brilliantly, but unevenly, fashioned by Italian Directors Fellini, Visconti and De Sica. Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider are the sex goddesses involved, and they are opulent and expert...
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...
Doors opened. The big apartment began filling like a leaky boat. Sophia pirouetted around wildly in a white nightie and green peignoir, kissing Ponti, kissing her mother, her sister, her director Vittorio De Sica,* even one or two paparazzi. Back in Hollywood, M.C. Bob Hope curled a lip slightly and said: "It must be wonderful to have talent enough to just send...
...next picture, De Sica will direct Sophia in a loose adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona. The screenplay has perhaps the darkest plot that has ever thickened. A young German (Max Schell) feels so guilty about his part in the war that he becomes a dope addict. Various women try to cure him with love, first his sister, then his sister-in-law (Sophia Loren), but not even that much sex can help him. He has a fight with his ex-Nazi father (Fredric March), then a reconciliation. Then both men commit suicide...