6/10
Wertmüller Warming Up
30 April 2024
Not a bad sophomore effort written by signora Wertmüller, it works better with the acting duels of Manfredi and his leading ladies: Luciana Paluzzi, as a thief wife, showing a comedy flair that was never exploited in American films, in the first story, "A Man of Honor"; Milena Vukotic in "The Knife Thrower", in a role "a lo Gelsomina" in «La strada», and Margaret Lee, as a dumb blonde wife, in "A Superior Man". "A Good Man", the fourth segment, is a bit too hard to laugh at. It seems an anticipation of «Pasqualino Settebellezze», with Manfredi playing a lazy, horny, unemployed worker, and Patrizia de Clara, as a suffering wife, but with little screen time. The main story linking the fourth segments is left open, without resolution.
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