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Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Tomas Milian
- Conte Ottavio (segment "Il lavoro")
- (as Thomas Milian)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico
- (segment "Renzo e Luciana")
- (uncredited)
Isa Di Marzio
- Narrator (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Vittorio De Sica(segment La riffa)
- Federico Fellini(segment Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio)
- Mario Monicelli(segment Renzo e Luciana)
- Writers
- Giovanni Arpino(segment Renzo e Luciana)
- Suso Cecchi D'Amico(segment Renzo e Luciana)
- Italo Calvino(segment Renzo e Luciana)
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- TriviaWhen Mario Monicelli's segment, "Renzo e Luciana", was cut, producer Carlo Ponti offered to finance Monicelli's film as a full-length feature on its own. This was never made. This segment was apparently cut because Monicelli had promised to deliver a "major American star" but failed.
- Quotes
Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio"): When I move my hips, convents shake.
- Alternate versionsThe original Italian version had four segments and was 210 minutes long. The segment "Renzo e Luciana" directed by Mario Monicelli was removed in the US version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cercando Sophia (2004)
- SoundtracksDay Dream
Music written by; Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington. English lyrics by John La Touche.
Featured review
Luchino Visconti dresses Romy Schnaider plus other stories.
The one thing I remembered about "Bocaccio70" was Romy Schnaider getting dressed in front of a mirror, in front of us. The film in his 4 segments has much more, but nothing better than Romy Schnaider in the Visconti segment. She is exquisite of course but in Visconti's hands she is superlative. Visconti, like George Cukor, knew how to guide actresses to their best. In the Monicelli episode Renzo and Lucia search for their privacy and Monicelli, a remarkable director, today 92 and still at work, manages to give the most straight forward, no frills segment. Fellini goes overboard with a 50 feet tall Anita Eckberg and a rather clumsy indictment at middle class morality. The De Sica episode has Sophia Loren, virgin and whore. When Sophia Loren was in De Sica's hands she was at her best. Her sympathy here takes over the episode and it becomes a joyful tale of nonsensical innocence. But, just as I remembered Romy Schnaider and Visconti are responsible for making this lightweight oddity really worth while.
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- uhmartinez-phd
- Nov 14, 2007
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $10,641
- Runtime3 hours 25 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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