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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...
...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...
Mademoiselle is an exquisitely photographed flop in which three flamboyant talents compound each other's mistakes. Trying an English-language drama overladen with artsy Continental flavor, Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) miscasts Jeanne Moreau, an actress far too frost-free to catch the temper of a frustrated spinster. She brings every subconscious drive boiling to the surface, and her roaring heterosexual readiness makes a parody of the screenplay by France's poet of perversion, Jean Genet...
Taking up the scepter in 1644, Christina soon became Europe's most curious baroque spinster queen. Her father, the militant Protestant Gustavus Adolphus, had ordered that she be brought up as a boy. In fact, the royal midwives had at first thought that she was one. She practiced shooting with a pistol, learned to speak Latin, French, German, Dutch, Italian and cope in Hebrew, Arabic and Greek...
...Elisa, Napoleon's eldest sister, was a shrewd, bald bluestocking with "the soul of a libertine in the body of a spinster" and only two claims to fame: 1) she made a fortune selling marble busts of her brother, and 2) to preserve her properties, she turned traitor and delivered Florence to the allies...