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  Review by Patrick ★★★½

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★½

  Cinematic Time Capsule
  1962 Marathon - Film #16

  How can you call that filth?

  Welcome to world of sex & love, Italian style with this mini-movie marathon of four extended shorts from the likes of Monicelli, Fellini, Visconti & De Sica.

  I loved the look and feel of Monicelli’s opener. But it’s Fellini’s first foray into color that steals the show. With its comically surreal story of a crusading prude’s belligerent battle with a bountiful billboard which suddenly becomes the attack of the 50 foot blondie.

  “Sorry. Maybe I’m overdoing it, but I’m trying to describe the indescribable”

  
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  Cinematic Time Capsule - 1962 Ranked

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  Review by maneleeo ★★★½

  This four parts anthology has something on its mind. Sex! These four italian directors use some of the most beautiful women at the time to explore themes of masculine sexual repression and desire. Their distinctive styles are noticeable, it's almost impossible to not know which one is Fellini's short and which one is Visconti's one (if you are a fan of the directors or know them at the least).

  The thing that stroke me the most was how all four of them thought of women and men in a similar way. Women were beautiful creatures. They were dominant, they knew what they wanted while still maintainng some form of emotional vulnerability, otherwise they wouldn't be very human. Now men, they were weak, sex craving animals, they wanted women but in the end, it was the female who was in control of the situation.

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  Review by BrandonHabes ★★★½ 5

  For some odd reason the omnibus tradition got hot during 60's European cinema. I've never quite understood the appeal. In worst case scenarios, the results are almost always disappointing, while in best cases, the most rewarding episodes always deserve more screen time. Even when there's a unifying theme to bind each episode together, the whole often feels less than the sum of its parts. 

  Such is the case with BOCCACCIO '70. 

  It's a collection of postwar tales loosely tied together around love, lust, money, and morality, brought to life by some big-hitting Italian filmmakers (Fellini, Visconti, De Sica, and lower on the celebrity pole, Monicelli). Apparently inspired by the allegorical sex tales of Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, the film is…

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  Review by threepenny ★★½ 2

  This is like four episodes of an hour-long anthology TV series smashed together and called a movie. Which means it's well suited to watching like a series. Four directors, four sometimes comedic stories about love. I had thought that maybe this movie kicked off the whole "Decamerotica" cycle in Italian film, and maybe it did, but there isn't even a bare breast to be seen, it's all very, very discreet. (Boccaccio was the author of the Decameron, a collection of stories about love and morality told by travelers holed up in a secluded villa avoiding the plague). I'm also too stupid to understand what the '70 in the title means, given that it came out in 1962. Let's go to…

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  Review by Daniel Shillito ★★★★

  I watched this for Anita Ekberg and so should you.

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  Review by Ford H ★★★ 2

  Anthology breakdown:

  Renzo e Luciana (Dir. Mario Monicelli) - 4/10
  Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio (Dir. Federico Fellini) - 7/10
  Il Lavoro (Dir. Luchino Visconti) - 8/10
  La Riffa (Dir. Vittorio De Sica) - 6/10

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  Review by Gregor Kreyca ���★★

  I watched the 208 minutes version of Boccaccio ’70 and the deleted first act afterwards which was an extra on my Blu-ray. It’s a long anthology movie. It’s well-shot, quite amusing at times and has a great cast. The highlights here are without a doubt the three sexy ladies: Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and Sophia Loren. They make the whole thing worth your time. It was also nice to see a young Tomas Milian in a very different role than usual.

  Boccaccio ’70 is not great. None of the four stories really stands out. They are all watchable though and entertaining enough thanks largely due their leading Ladies. But I would not expect a classic from this one. But worth checking out once if you ask me.

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  Review by Zegan ★★★★

  • Part 1 (Mario Monicelli): 8/10
  • Part 2 (Federico Fellini): 9/10
  • Part 3 (Luchino Visconti): 7/10
  • Part 4 (Vittorio de Sica): 8/10

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  Review by Antonomasia ★★★½ 4

  Part of my Pasolini & Visconti season.

  This is an anthology film inspired by Boccaccio's 14th century Decameron, incorporating four 50-minute stories by directors with distinct styles, and starring some of the greatest and most beautiful European actresses of the era. I would love to be able to compare film and book, but I only read bits of the Decameron as a student - never the whole thing - and the impression I was left with then was simply that of a more elegant and distinctly Italian Canterbury Tales.

  Renzo e Luciana (Mario Monicelli) 3 stars
  It wasn't difficult to see why Monicelli is the least well known of the directors involved; this lacklustre segment was even cut for the film's…

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  Review by Zoë 🐝 ★★½

  Renzo e Luciana: 2.5 stars. I liked Marisa Solinas as Luciana and I thought this film did a nice job of showing the struggles of being a working woman in 60s Italy, from workplace harassment to discrimination against married women. However I found Renato unlikable and not at all sympathetic to Luciana's struggles with her creepy boss and the ending felt like an awkward way to wrap up the story, discarding the stakes the rest of the film had.

  Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio: 4 stars. By far the best effort of the anthology, a hilarious story about the censorious Antonio's psycho-sexual obsession with his Aunt that he has repressed so intensely that an innocent if sensual billboard of Anita…

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  Review by Jenna Ipcar ★★½

  BEH. Considering this has four excellent directors, four [fire emoji] leading ladies and a run time of 3.5 hours it all kind of boils down to a buncha stinkers with a Fellini great shoved in between.

  Renzo e Luciana by Mario Monicelli - 2.5 Stars
  There's some bits of intrigue scattered throughout this but its all smothered by a terrible plot and an even worse conclusion. About a couple who gets married in secret because their job prohibits them from either getting married or having kids, Renzo and Luciana sneak around trying their best not to get found out on top of having to live in an already over crowded house with her parents and siblings. Basically, it's the search…