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Boccaccio '70 (Remastered Edition)
Boccaccio '70
Remastered Edition
Actors: Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Marisa Solinas, Germano Gilioli
Directors: Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica
Genres: Indie & Art House, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy
UR     2005     3hr 25min

Four complete segments, each directed by a master filmmaker and starring an extraordinary cast of international stars: "Renzo & Luciana", directed by Mario Monicelli (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET) was cut to shorten the film...  more »

     
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Actors: Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Marisa Solinas, Germano Gilioli
Directors: Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica
Creators: Federico Fellini, Brunello Rondi, Cesare Zavattini, Ennio Flaiano
Genres: Indie & Art House, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Sub-Genres: Indie & Art House, Comedy, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Studio: NoShame Films
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen - Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 04/26/2005
Original Release Date: 06/26/1962
Theatrical Release Date: 06/26/1962
Release Year: 2005
Run Time: 3hr 25min
Screens: Color,Widescreen
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaDVD Credits: 2
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 8
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Languages: German, Italian
Subtitles: English

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Member Movie Reviews

K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 9/6/2023...
A must for fans of Sophia Loren in her younger days!

Movie Reviews

It's the Fellini segment, stupid!
Uncle Borges | Via Lungomare 6 | 07/21/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"5 stars because of the fantastic Fellini at his best-incomparable-Anita Ekberg-extravaganza! 3 stars to de Sica for lovely yet minor Sofia romp. 2 stars to theatrical budoir boredom of Visconti who can't find proper filter for his camera. 2 stars for Monicelli: was this a futuristic tale? 1 star to rather drab DVD package with hardly any meat on it (stills + thirty seconds of some black and white Sofia newsreel footage from 196?...nothing else!)
Overall: 5 stars because Il Maestro overwhelms every single complaint...in fact I suggest that you first watch disc 2 (Visconti/de Sica combo) and then go to disc 1 (Monicelli/Fellini)..."
Drink your meelk!
G. Williford | VA USA | 05/03/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)

"This film I picked up more out of curiousity and because Fellini directs one of the viginettes. I had never seen any of the 4 mini films before, nor did I know of the controversy surrounding its universal release. Each film deals with sexuality in different ways. All of the films have impressive looking anamorphic transfers for being almost 45yrs old. There is English dubbed audio tracks though my copy kept switching back to Italian on its own.. English subtitles looked fine.
All of the films looked great and are restored anamorphic transfers. The Fellini film was my favorite by far. This is his first feature using color as well as featuring dreams/fantasy in his films. I couldn't help think of Attack of the 50ft Woman seeing the charming Anita come to life off a billboard. This is as close to comedy as Fellini got , too bad he didn't explore this more often. Fellini's segment is almost an hour.

The Visconti piece was lavishly produced and feautured a troubled wife trying to rekindle that spark. This takes place in a high class French styled mansion. Romy is nice to look at even if she is rather pathetic. This mini drama was the most serious of the 4 and rather depressing as it unfolded.

The last two were rather light and forgetful even if Sophia Loren looked fabulous, and was omni present in her role as a carnival spinster with a change of heart.

The extras are fun. Lots of on set pics and lobby cards , plus a large fold out booklet with press clippings and news reviews.The U.S. and Italian trailers are intresting to compare.

If your a Fellini fan, you would do well to see this for his giantess fantasy alone!





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Viva Anita Eckberg, Romy Schneider and Sophie Loren!
Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 09/15/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Bocaccio 70 is a set of four vignettes (The U:S version included an additional work directed by Mario Monicelli), although I don' t know this chapter; I will comment you the works I know.

" The bet" is a demolishing, incisive and merciless of a decaying marriage, when the husband of a very rich wealthy and alluring woman (the exquisite and unforgettable Romy Schneider) in a role that fits for her to perfection. She personifies the woman of the sixties at the eve of the feminine liberation, and so did she when she notices has been cheated by his husband and so she will take her own and brutal revenge. This is by far, the most mature of the three portraits, with that exquisiteness so typical of Luchino Visconti.

"The temptation of Saint Anthony" is a cynical and mundane parable; a demolishing satire about the Freudian man, who suffers in his own flesh all the sins of the world, product of the voluptuousness emanated from Anita Eckberg in a huge poster with a suggestive semiotic lexicon. That portrait will become for him a true set of bad dreams, but the way in which is told a this acidic surrealistic and mordacious story is so brilliant that the rest of the plot runs for you.

Finally, "The raffle" is perhaps the less relevant and banal of the previous two. It has to do with the times and livings of woman in search of love in the middle of a raffle (a sharp metaphor of life), but the script is extremely weak to hold the previous entries of FEFE and Visconti.

Fortunately the first two justify plainly your purchase. A cult movie to enjoy over and over, due the pristine elegance and mordacity that have resisted the test of time.

Highly recommended!
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