Complete credited cast: | |||
Carroll Baker | ... | Laura | |
Adolfo Celi | ... | Antonio | |
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Cesare Barro | ... | Claudio |
Luigi Pistilli | ... | Carlo | |
Gabriella Giorgelli | ... | Prostitute | |
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Dada Gallotti | ... | Patrizia's Friend |
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Caterina Barbero | ... | Gabriella |
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Carla Spessato | ... | Magda |
Femi Benussi | ... | Patrizia | |
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Jenny Tamburi | ... | Diana |
Antonio, a rich industrialist, married Laura, a beautiful young woman. When he can no longer satisfy her sexually, a short-term relationship is born with her stepson, Claudio, but it is enough to make her acquire the awareness of her personality and her rights. When Claudio leaves, she also leaves. Her husband searches for her, begs her to come back to him. The woman, who finally feels free, refuses. Antonio can not accept the prospect of being alone forever, and decides to kill her. Written by lament
The middle-aged couple Laura and Antonio have a problem, a problem with their sex life: Antonio fails to perform at night and Laura is getting increasingly frustrated. To add insult to frustration Antonio does better when confronted with younger flesh and when his wife finds out she too seeks a younger lover. However, this is more than Antonio's Latin ego can take...
This is a very peculiar kind of film, not the sort of thing you normally find in Anglo-Saxon countries. On the one hand the film is exploitative in the way it depicts the sex, the drama, uses its nude scenes, resolves the tension etc. On the other it takes its subject (sex problems in middle age ) perfectly seriously. The leads come across as believable people: they aren't the "I'm over forty, I should have no sex" bygones of mainstream cinema or the lecherous dirty old men and women of exploitation cinema.