Appassionata

1974 [ITALIAN]

Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60%
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 1096 1.1K

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Plot summary

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

Director

Gianluigi Calderone Photo
Gianluigi Calderone

Top cast

Ornella Muti Photo
Ornella Muti as Eugenia Rutelli
Carla Mancini Photo
Carla Mancini as Client at Dentist
Valentina Cortese Photo
Valentina Cortese as Elisa Rutelli
Eleonora Giorgi Photo
Eleonora Giorgi as Nicola
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905.26 MB
1280*690
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 4
1.64 GB
1888*1008
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lazarillo

"American Beauty"--1970's Italian Style

It's a little hard to describe this movie. It's kind of like "American Beauty" where you have a dysfunctional middle-class family with a father that lusts after his teenage daughter's best friend, but in this movie he actually has sex with the friend (repeatedly)and perhaps his own daughter as well(?!) To be fair, this movie is nowhere near as offensive and disturbing as it sounds on paper. It's directed with subtlety and some amount of class; it's much close to Italian art than Italian sleaze. The actors playing the mother and father are both very good, and the two teenage girls are played by Ornella Muti and Eleanora Giogi, both then in their late teens/early twenties, and two of the most beautiful women in the history of the Italian cinema. (Like Jenny Tamburi in the similar film "La Seduzione" or Gloria Guida in about every movie she ever made, these two look good both in and out of their schoolgirl uniforms, but that is not because they are remotely believable as actual schoolgirls).This movie is not so much offensive or disturbing as it is confounding. The Muti character's mother who was once a famous concert pianist is suffering from some kind of mental breakdown, and her father is understandably drawn to a new life with the younger Giorgi character, who is like a sexy blank slate for all his middle-age fantasies. The motivation of the younger characters though are much more opaque and they are rather thinly-drawn as characters. Giorgi's character clearly lacks for parental attention, which explains why she befriends her friend's sickly mother, but not why she throws sex on her father several times but otherwise gives him the cold shoulder. The Muti characters actions, however, are completely perplexing: she is having trouble losing her virginity (which in itself strains credibility to the limit), but comes up with the most jaw-dropping and unbelievable solution to her problem imaginable.This movie is available in two versions: an Italian version which censors out the full-frontal nudity (which is hardly the most offensive thing in this movie), and a badly-dubbed English which is very confusing and seems to leave out a lot of plot points. Oh, and by the way, Agostina Belli is NOT in this movie. (Muti. Giorgi, AND Belli all in the same movie probably would have melted the celluloid in the camera). I'd recommend this movie to fans of beautiful Italian actresses, but be prepared to possibly be offended and definitely confused!
Reviewed by stevelivesey-37183 3 / 10

Doesn't make any sense at all

I have so many questions.What happened with the daughters friend in the dentists chair? Did he drug her? Was she attracted to him? Has she some mental disorder or kink that makes her react to older men?What was with the daughter? Was she attracted to the father as well? Did she want to become the mother? Did she want want what what her friend was getting from her father?And what about the ending? Who did the father sleep with? Is he an unreliable narrator? In the end, does he leave? Every just seems to carry on as it did before so I can only surmise that this happened in his head.Interesting yet horribly flawed and one can never discount the possibility that the Italians just wanted to get boobs on screen to get bums on seats.
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