Word: vicario
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WIFEMISTRESS Directed by Marco Vicario Screenplay by Rodolfo Sonego...
Wifemistress is several shades less solemn. Its structure in fact is that of a sex farce, though its tone is more appropriate to a sentimental comedy. The disparity may arise because Director Marco Vicario (Homo Eroticus) can't quite manage the French trick of finding cuckoldry hilarious. The situation, at any rate, is satisfactorily ridiculous. Luigi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a wealthy wine merchant, an idealist and a writer of tracts on the equality of women. He is also a great philanderer, with mistresses and bastard children all around Italy. But what has that to do with idealism...