Paolo il caldo (1973)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Marco Vicario

Writers:

Vitaliano Brancati (novel)
Marco Vicario (writer)

Release Date:

11 April 1975 (Finland)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Womanizer | Urination Scene | Erotica | Female Nudity

Cast

Giancarlo Giannini	...	Paolo Castorini
Rossana Podestà	...	Lilia
Riccardo Cucciolla	...	Paolo's Father
Lionel Stander	...	Paolo's Grandfather, Baron Castorini
Gastone Moschin	...	Uncle Edmondo
Adriana Asti	...	Beatrice
Marianne Comtell	...	Paolo's Mother
Vittorio Caprioli	...	Pharmacist
Ornella Muti	...	Giovanna
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Neda Arneric	...	Caterina
Andrea Aureli
Barbara Bach
Femi Benussi	...	Whore
Enrica Bonaccorti
Teodoro Corrà
Angela Covello
Orchidea de Santis
Dori Dorika	...	The sister
Umberto D'Orsi	...	The Marquis
Attilio Dottesio
Ugo Fangareggi	...	Luigi
Luigi Antonio Guerra
Oreste Lionello
Anna Melita
Roberta Paladini
Mario Pisu	...	Banchieri
Bruno Scipioni
Greta Vayan
Pilar Velázquez
Eugene Walter

Also Known As:

The Sensual Man
The Sensuous Sicilian (USA)

Runtime:

USA:104 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Catania, Sicily, Italy

Company:

Atlantica Cinematografica Produzione Films

Movie Connections:

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 5 (1998) (V)

Needs subtitles

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

The Sensual Man stars Giancarlo Giannini, dapper as ever, as a sexually obsessed Italian nobleman, and details his erotic exploits over the course of the early to mid 20th century. We first meet him as a randy schoolboy peeking under the skirts of the household help, and the film follows him over the years with brief stopovers during the 1936 Fascist-era conquest of Ethiopia and the postwar comedown. By film's end our desperate hero is still trying to pick up women from the confines of his motor car, as he tearfully tries to break his sexual addiction. The film also features a typically over the top performance by Lionel Stander, here playing--believe it or not--Giannini's grandfather. This is not a film that plays well in English: the dubbing is adequate, but much of the film relies on close understandings of Italian character, society, and history, and these aspects of the story are poorly conveyed by the translation. Unfortunately, the dubbed version is the only version readily available in your local video emporium. Shot in autumnal hues by the great Tonino Delli Colli, The Sensual Man benefits from a romantic if unoriginal score by Armando Trovajoli.