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HIGH INFIDELITY. In four zesty episodes, this Italian comedy draws and quarters the subjects of extramarital dalliance, assigning the choicer bits to a jealous wife (Monica Vitti) and a vacationing businessman (Nino Manfredi...
...Scandal, Hero Nino Manfredi, whose face is a blah-relief of middle-class mores, skillfully portrays a vacationing businessman who imagines an intrigue between his voluptuous young wife (Fulvia Franco) and a handsome archaeologist-until he gets a bizarre surprise. Manfredi is nearly matched by Monica Vitti, using every tic of her tragicomic trade in The Victim, an offbeat ode to a jealous wife who harangues her husband out of the house. When his best friend (Jean-Pierre Cassel) stops by, she pours out her troubles while he paws out his sympathy. Result: an orgy of absent-minded surrender...
...Monica Vitti, brooding about fate in The Soup, mocks her own sullen beauty with surprising verve as an impoverished young wife yearning to rid herself of a wretched husband who slurps and belches at mealtime. She is "lucky enough to be hit by a car," and invests her meager insurance money in a series of hired killers, some dishonest, some amorous, none very efficient...
...DESERT. Director Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film is a provocative, painterly essay on alienation in a young wife (Monica Vitti) whose troubles appear to be a byproduct of heavy industry in Ravenna...
...DESERT. Monica Vitti goes soul-searching amid the blighted landscape of industrial Ravenna as a neurotic young wife whose alienation is stunningly visualized in Director Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film...