This movie left me indifferent. It's not funny but it's not sad, it's not ugly but it's not beautiful either. It's there in the middle. Lost in nowhere.
3 Reviews
Inexistent Movie
stefanozucchelli23 April 2022
The Learning Centre.
morrison-dylan-fan1 September 2014
Warning: Spoilers
With having been taken by Michele Mercier excellent performances in the films Black Sabbath and Cemetery Without Crosses,I was delighted to discover that Mercier had appeared in an Italian Sex Comedy,which led to me getting ready for an eye-opening education.
The plot:
Since the death of his dad,Roberto Monti has been living at his deceased dads former villa, (which has now become a boarding school,due to his dad wanting to pay all his debts off)and constantly looking at the expensive cars that the head of the villa has.Despite being told that girls are much more interesting than cars,Monti keeps his sights firmly set on getting his own sports car. Believing that he must head to the outside world in order to achieve his dream,Monti soon finds himself travelling on a road in life with women,who are about to educate him on the secrets of the fairer sex.
View on the film:
Using Roberto Monti's search for a dream fast car/women as a loose thread for the film,the screenplay by (deep breath!) René Barjavel, Franco Castellano, Willibald Eser and Giuseppe Moccia take's an episodic approach to Monti's adventures,with Monti spending 10-15 minutes with a particular women,who he gains some important insights from,but ends up getting torn away from,thanks to a repeated dose of bad luck.Initially appearing to be a flirty Sex Comedy,the writers give the film an off-beat satirical edge,with a re-enactment of the French Revolution showing the lifestyle that Monti and the women have wrapped themselves in.
Whilst director Luciano Salce does well at showing the lavish lifestyle in sweeping wide shots,the film is sadly never able to make the playful sex/fascinating satirical Comedy fully combined,which leads to the satirical bite feeling rather dry,and the sex Comedy moments feeling oddly cold.
Despite only having a supporting role,the ravishing Michèle Mercier (who does not appear naked in the movie..dam!)gives a splendid performance as Franziska,with Mercier's playfulness leading to Monti (played by a very good Robert Hoffmann) uncovering the charm effect that he has on women.Joining Mercier,the stunning Anita Ekberg (who is the only actress to show some flesh in the title) gives a delightfully over the top performance as egotistical mega-star Margaret Joyce,whilst the pretty Elsa Martinelli teaches Monti that women drivers can out run men any day.
The plot:
Since the death of his dad,Roberto Monti has been living at his deceased dads former villa, (which has now become a boarding school,due to his dad wanting to pay all his debts off)and constantly looking at the expensive cars that the head of the villa has.Despite being told that girls are much more interesting than cars,Monti keeps his sights firmly set on getting his own sports car. Believing that he must head to the outside world in order to achieve his dream,Monti soon finds himself travelling on a road in life with women,who are about to educate him on the secrets of the fairer sex.
View on the film:
Using Roberto Monti's search for a dream fast car/women as a loose thread for the film,the screenplay by (deep breath!) René Barjavel, Franco Castellano, Willibald Eser and Giuseppe Moccia take's an episodic approach to Monti's adventures,with Monti spending 10-15 minutes with a particular women,who he gains some important insights from,but ends up getting torn away from,thanks to a repeated dose of bad luck.Initially appearing to be a flirty Sex Comedy,the writers give the film an off-beat satirical edge,with a re-enactment of the French Revolution showing the lifestyle that Monti and the women have wrapped themselves in.
Whilst director Luciano Salce does well at showing the lavish lifestyle in sweeping wide shots,the film is sadly never able to make the playful sex/fascinating satirical Comedy fully combined,which leads to the satirical bite feeling rather dry,and the sex Comedy moments feeling oddly cold.
Despite only having a supporting role,the ravishing Michèle Mercier (who does not appear naked in the movie..dam!)gives a splendid performance as Franziska,with Mercier's playfulness leading to Monti (played by a very good Robert Hoffmann) uncovering the charm effect that he has on women.Joining Mercier,the stunning Anita Ekberg (who is the only actress to show some flesh in the title) gives a delightfully over the top performance as egotistical mega-star Margaret Joyce,whilst the pretty Elsa Martinelli teaches Monti that women drivers can out run men any day.
Happily, I learned to love gleefully glam 60s Italian cinema a very long time ago!
Weirdling_Wolf27 January 2022
Luciano Salce's deliciously spicy, consistently charming coming-of-age delirium 'Das gewisse Etwas der Frauen' (1966) is an amusingly sprightly, stridently sunny, cappuccino sweet, swingingly sexy, frequently funny, not immoderately saucy bedroom farce with Robert Hoffman, Elsa Martinelli, and Anita Ekberg, with the teasingly exquisite Euro-cult dream Michèle Mercier playing the mesmerically beautiful mathematician that so dutifully assists the young, inexperienced Hoffman conquer his fear of bums, er, sorry, sums! 'How I learned to Love Women' is a seriously slinky, scintillatingly sugary sixties lark about a naive young man (Hoffman) studiously getting to the blissful 'bottom' of the myriad majestic mysteries born of undertaking his youthful exploratory exodus into the sublime, fleshly diorama of physical love! All this fabulously frothy, erotically educational, glamorously glossy, fleet-footed flimflam is groovily burnished with yet another sonorously scrumptious Ennio Morricone score! And it would be enormously remiss of me, almost to the point of a cinematic crime, if I didn't draw worthy attention to the ecstatically effervescent, permissively perky presence of luxuriously lissome, super-sleek, sylphlike starlet Romina Power, the vivacious young lassie so enormously taken by the not-yet manly charms of dashing young, blonde haired blade Roberto Monti (Robert Hoffman). (Happily, I learned to love gleefully glam 60s Italian cinema a very long time ago!)
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