Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect ...
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Title: The Sunday Woman (1975)
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| Marcello Mastroianni | ... | Commissioner Salvatore Santamaria | |
| Jacqueline Bisset | ... | Anna Carla Dosio | |
| Jean-Louis Trintignant | ... | Massimo Campi | |
| Aldo Reggiani | ... | Lello Riviera | |
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Maria Teresa Albani | ... | Virginia Tabusso |
| Omero Antonutti | ... | Benito | |
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Gigi Ballista | ... | Vollero |
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Fortunato Cecilia | ... | Nicosia (as Renato Cecilia) |
| Claudio Gora | ... | Garrone | |
| Franco Nebbia | ... | Bonetto | |
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Lina Volonghi | ... | Ines Tabusso |
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Pino Caruso | ... | Police Commissioner De Palma |
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Mario Ferrero | ... | Vittorio Dosio |
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Giuseppe Anatrelli | ... | The Chief of Police |
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Antonio Orlando | ... | The Barber |
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Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, a homosexual platonic friend of Anna Carla. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murdering happens... Written by 1felco
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The police have the victim, the weapon and the suspect. What they don't have is the Sunday Woman. See more »Parents Guide:
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Written by Mario Casacci, Alberto Ciambricco, Leonardo Cortese
Performed by Sergio Leonardi
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Lightweight, afternoon tea-like Giallo with subtle humour and a nice performance by Marcello Mastrioanni. A kind of Marks and Spencer
giallo.
In Turin, dirty old man/architect Garrone goes about his daily business of looking up woman's skirts, making optimistic passes at young waitresses, and ruining high class are exhibitions. Meanwhile, bored housewife Anna is tuning out her older husband ramblings and thinking about a pointless argument she's having with her possible lover Massimo (Jean-Luis Trintigant). They are arguing about how to pronounce the word Boston, by the way, and this architect Garrone has stuck his nib in about it. Clearly venting, Anna writes a letter where she thinks Massimo and herself should kill Garrone.
Garrone ends up being beaten to death by a giant stone phallus and Anna regrets writing that letter as her two newly-fired house staff take the letter to the police. The man in charge of the case is Marcello Mastrioanni and he's a bit uncomfortable with this whole upper class thing. The bored Anna and the even more bored Massimo start treating the whole thing like a game and start doing their own investigations.
Complicating things further is the revelation that Massimo isn't Anna's lover, as he's in a turbulent gay relationship Lello. While it's refreshing to see an actual gay relationship in an Italian movie from this era, rather than a man in drag battering policeman with a handbag and screaming that he's all woman, these two bicker like fiends and you wonder what Lello is thinking when he also starts his own investigation into the murder to save his relationship with Massimo.
The more Marcello digs, the more dirt he finds as it seems that no one has an alibi and everyone seems to be up to something. He now also has to contend with two eccentric sisters who have trouble with hooker using their garden for business, a mysterious car that's following people around and a stonemason business that specializes in stone phalluses
There's not a great deal of murder here but plenty of mystery, and Marcello Mastrioanni's laid back, bemused cop wanders through a world he doesn't understand, with a few sidekicks, many, many meals, and plenty of discussion about Sicilians, Sardinians, and Piedmontians. It's quite a long film for a giallo and even though it's trash free, my mind didn't wander at all while watching it.
Nice Ennio Morricone soundtrack too - but do i have to say that?