The Saga of Franca Viola: The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
Review of Damiano Damiani’s docu-drama The Most Beautiful Wife / La Moglie Più Bella (1970), starring Ornella Muti and Alessio Orano, and released on Blu by Twilight Time.
Tag: Ornella Muti
BR: Most Beautiful Wife, The / Moglie Più Bella, La (1970)
The initial impression from the poster art and compacted summaries is that The Most Beautiful Wife is a sleazy tale of a child bride or an illicit relationship between a teen and an older man, but Damiano Damiani’s film is a thinly veiled bio-drama of Franca Viola…
A Passionate What? – Two Naughties from the Seventies
Move update + reviews of two early seventies oddities: Roman Polanski’s sex comedy What? / Che? (Severin) and Gianluigi Calderone’s Appassionata (Twilight Time) on Blu.
BR: Appassionata (1974)
Bernardo Bertolucci may not have created an imitable formula for the free-flowing erotic art film with Last Tango in Paris (1972), but he certainly aided in making audiences more appreciative of, if not hungry for further adventures of older men being teased by luscious temptresses, but Gianluigi Calderone’s Appassionata takes things a little bit farther into the Wrong domain…
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