All'onorevole piacciono le donne (Nonostante le apparenze... e purché la nazione non lo sappia) (1972)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Lucio Fulci

Writers:

Sandro Continenza (writer)
Lucio Fulci (writer)

Release Date:

November 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment...

Plot Keywords:

Vatican | Death | Convent | Compulsion | Politics

Cast

Lando Buzzanca	...	Senator Gianni Puppis
Lionel Stander	...	Cardinal Maravigli
Laura Antonelli	...	Sister Hildegarde
Corrado Gaipa	...	Don Gesualdo
Renzo Palmer	...	Father Lucion
Agostina Belli	...	Sister Brunhilde
José Quaglio	...	Pietro Fornari
Arturo Dominici	...	His Excellency
Eva Czemerys	...	Fantasy Woman
Anita Strindberg	...	French Ambassador's Wife
Francis Blanche	...	Father Scirer
Armando Bandini	...	Bardolino - Maravigli's Secretary
Christian Aligny	...	Puppis' Secretary
Aldo Puglisi	...	Carmelino the chauffeur
Claudio Nicastro	...	Baddoni, police captain

Also Known As:

All'onorevole piacciono le donne (Italy) (short title)
Obsédé malgré lui (France)
The Eroticist
The Senator Likes Women (USA)
The Senator Likes Women... Despite Appearances and Provided the Nation Doesn't Know (UK)

Runtime:

109 min | Argentina:105 min | France:85 min | USA:96 min | USA:74 min (heavily cut)

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:X | Argentina:18 | France:U | Italy:VM18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Nel supremo interesse della nazione - A history of censorship (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Dormi serena

Fulci works magic no matter what the genre

Whenever you talk of Lucio Fulci, you immediately think of the his role as the Godfather of Gore. Films like Zombie and The House by the Cemetery are more well known by this director, but he made many films before that were comedies and westerns. This is one of his satirical comedies that is both surreal and a major did at the Catholic Church and Italian politics.

I would not presume to get all of the jokes in this film, as most are not known outside of Italy, but it was funny enough when they lampooned the Catholic Church and their involvement in Italian politics. There are also laughs aplenty at the military and the police as they attempt to stage a coup. I would not like to give away military secrets, but the clandestine operations in this film remind me so much of what our country does to it's "friends," and vice versa.

There is even a nunspoitation aspect to this film as the Presidential candidate goes to a convent to get treatment for his particular paraphilia, and manages to deflower 21 nuns in a single night. His dreams had nuns in lace habits that exposed their breasts and buttocks so that he could grab them. A nun who got left out managed to find him and they enjoyed a night of passion.

This was hilarious and sexy and surreal and irreverent. Fulci at his best.