The study of semantics has convinced Amedio (Jean Rochefort) that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on an Italian holiday with his family, he conceives the idea that his aging wife (Marie-Christine Barrault) should assume the role of his mother, and his daughter (Jacqueline Lustig), who has an infant son, should assume the role of his wife and lover. His real mother (Lila Kedrova), an elderly invalid, dies just as this conceit begins to take form, and, inexplicably, the women placidly go along with this odd notion for a time, but eventually return to their former roles.
Lisbeth
Wolfgang Cazotte, a famous, refined and charming court painter of the early 19th century,plans to seduce Ehrengard, an attractive and proud virgin, without touching her, just by instilling in her a throbbing passion. At one point, though, the painter's artifice seems to start turning its back on him...
una suora
15 anos após o monumental "Os Monstros", que foi um excelente exemplo de comédia de episódios italiano, 3 dos maiores eternos diretores italianos (Risi, Monicelli, Scola), os melhores escritores italianos de todos os tempos (Age, Scarpelli), os melhores atores italianos de sempre (Tognazzi Gassmann, Sordi), uma das mulheres mais bonitas do mundo (Ornella Muti) participam desse grande tributo. (e 18 - Estimado 18 Anos)
O filme é dividido em 14 episódios: O Passarinho de Val Padana, Saudações dos Amigos, Tantum Ergo, Autostop, O Suspeito, Primeiros Socorros, Mamim e Mammon, Cidadão Exemplar, Pornodive, Sequestro de Amigo, Como Uma Rainha, Anfitriã!, Sem Palavras e Elogios Fúnebres.
4 Versões:
115 min - Itália 90 min - USA
100 min - Argentina
102 min - França
A bankrupt Italian count commit suicide and one of his creditors takes over his family villa but he allows the widow, the mother, and the three adult sisters to stay on. The creditor is a wealthy businessman, but also basically an uncouth peasant (who fancies himself an opera singer). Still, the dimwitted, sex-crazed sisters try to seduce both him and his shy, virginal son who accompanies him.
Stella
Uma retrospectiva histórica da Itália do início do século XX até o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial a partir das vidas de Olmo, filho bastardo de camponeses, e Alfredo, herdeiro de uma rica família de latifundiários. O pano de fundo é o intenso cenário político da época, com o fortalecimento do fascismo e, em oposição, as lutas trabalhistas ligadas ao socialismo.
Eugenia Pellacani Bompani
A fig tree located in the lands of a baron of the lower Padana has for many centuries been the subject of veneration. The baron, crippled and atheist, one day sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the holy venerated by her villagers. Immediately the aristocrat converts and decides to give his belongings to a religious institute. In fact, he was a victim of a cheating and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.
Duke Philippe married Cristina, daughter of a fisherman. But his brothers, seeing that these after marriage they would miss out inheritance, decide to get rid of the woman by imprisoning her in a tower and making the duke believe she died.
Hermana Caterina
Sister Germana, a beautiful woman who took the vows following the death of her fiancé Guido, is forced to return from Libya, and becomes the mother superior in a hospital in Lombardy. A young Communist, pretending to be sick, has established himself in the hospital where he has been for some time now, though he tries to make himself useful in whatever way he can. Realizing that the nun does not tolerate his presence, the young man leaves the hospital, and in order to make a living, busies himself as a ‘nurse’ in the town. During the course of a strike, he is wounded. He is brought to the hospital where he is reconciled with the mother superior...
Nun
O legendário diretor italiano Pier Paolo Pasolini nos traz nove contos exuberantes neste filme. Baseado nos eternos clássicos de Boccaccio Decameron é uma "irreverente travessura"! Freiras devassas que realizam "milagres" sexuais, uma esposa traiçoeira com habilidade para negócios, um artista tuberculoso à beira da morte que tenta trapacear com o Céu, jovens amantes apanhados com as calças na mão, um criado que perde a cabeça por amor e um simplório fazendeiro que tenta transformar sua esposa numa égua. Estas são apenas algumas das histórias que Pasolini traz à vida com maestria.
suor Pasqualina
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
Pasqualina
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
moglie del contadino
An industrial exploiter, an old knife thrower, a cynical professor, and an ungrateful husband depict the selfishness and superficiality of the male gender.
