Directed by Jules Dassin
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Sex, money and power in a southern Italian town is the theme of this French film. Gina Lollobrigida is at the center of it all. She is the lover of a wealthy, aging artist who tells the other important people in town what to do, including the police. She falls for visiting agronomist Marcello Mastroianni, who struggles to make sense of the strange customs. For example, the men of the town play a drinking game to determine who will be the "boss", the losers have to get permission from him to drink the local wine. One day Gina steals the wallet of a visiting Swiss tourist. The police are on to her so she must appeal to the dying artist for help. Meanwhile, the police chief's son is involved in a love affair with an important judge. Dassin directs this complex melodrama with a master's touch, but the material is not quite up to his talents.
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