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The disruptive and scandalous success of masterpieces like The Decameron and Last Tango in Paris had a paradoxical effect. While they triggered trials and moral crusades, they also created a huge market for eros. The film industry, sensing a business opportunity, plunged headlong into producing more commercial subgenres, such as the decamerotico and the commedia sexy all’italiana. This initiated a cycle where the auteur avant-garde broke taboos, and popular cinema collected the fragments to sell to the general public. Art provoked, the market normalized.
directs the film that, in effect, gives rise to the Italian sexy comedy, finding a perfect balance between popular comedy with a Sicilian setting and arthouse ambitions. Malice is a subtle and unsettling work that explores the awakening of adolescent sexuality with almost psychoanalytic precision. The character of , an icon of the genre, becomes the catalyst that explodes the repressed tensions of the patriarchal family. The film is not a simple farce but an erotic coming-of-age story that stages the loss of innocence and the discovery of the power of desire, becoming an absolute cult classic and one of the biggest box-office hits of its era.
‘s most controversial film is a bitter and disillusioned work on the end of revolutionary utopias. The protagonists, who try to live their sexuality with unprecedented freedom, discover that this very freedom makes them vulnerable. The film’s original ending, a brutal gang rape and murder, was censored upon its release, turning a work of denunciation into a simple sexy comedy and dooming it to failure. The restored version, available today, restores the film’s full power, revealing it as a ruthless critique of patriarchal violence and the failure of a revolution that left women to pay the price alone.
“And apparently, I have God to thank for that…” ROFLMAO! Ron that, and the graphic with god creating sexy people was priceless! I like a Mediterranean look as well. My girlfriend is half Italian with dark eyes and dark hair, and very sexy I might say! And you are right, Italians are very passionate about everything, which is something I find attractive. Really enjoyed the D&G video clip It’s beautiful! I’ll be sharing it with my GF tonight when I get home because I know it’s something she would really appreciate, being a graphic artist who dabbles in film work as well. Great post! You always put so much into them, dude!
