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...QUEENS. Italy seems to make a cinematic specialty out of confecting De-cameron-]ike clusters of shorts from spun-out risque jokes. This is one of the better examples of the genre-with feral Monica Vitti, delectable Claudia Cardinale and regal Capucine...
...QUEENS. Italy seems to make a cinematic specialty out of confecting De-cameron-like clusters of shorts from spun-out risqué jokes. This is one of the best examples of the genre-with feral Monica Vitti, delectable Claudia Cardinale and regal Capucine...
Apparently baffled or bemused by her first English-speaking role, Italy's Monica Vitti plays Modesty as haute couture: black jump suit for tussling with a would-be lover; slinky silk for all-out assaults; a peekaboo cape for evenings of casual intrigue. Ostensibly, Modesty is a retired criminal genius hired by the British government to save a shipment of diamonds en route to an oil-rich Middle Eastern sheikdom...
There are three conspicuous ones, and an uncounted number of minor imitations. Most unlikely is Italy's Monica Vitti, an intellectual type seen as a brooding nymph in The Red Desert. In a new British production, Vitti is Modesty Blaise of London comic-strip fame. Modesty has retired at 26 from the international smuggling racket to become a sort of freelance girl Friday for the British Secret Service. Armed with blouse-button bombs, cigarette lighters that turn out to be miniature flame throwers, and lipstick that untelescopes into a deadly arrow, Modesty outbombs and outshoots everybody, including that archcriminal...
HIGH INFIDELITY. The perils of extra-marital dalliance are polished off ever so lightly in a four-part Italian comedy dominated by a jealous but accessible wife (Monica Vitti), a discreet businessman (Nino Manfredi) and other stray mates...