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Swept Away by Family Affection

1978 · 100 min

A breezy, cheeky Italian farce that coasts on nudity, silly domestic chaos and a dog, easy to watch but slight.

Overview
This is an Italian sex comedy that, like the earlier sex comedy "Il Gatto Mammone", combines the comic stylings of Lando Buzzanca ("The Eroticist", "Il Domestico") with gorgeous, oft-nude body of Gloria Guida (Miss Teen Italy of 1974). Actually, Guida gets to demonstrate a few comic styling of her own as a bohemian theater "actress" who lives in cramped apartment with a whole bunch of other clothing-averse bohemian types. She is very devoted to her older beau Buzzanca, but his life is very complicated due to his own devotion to his very big and very old dog, the ironically named "Piccolo" (basically "Tiny"), and his even older grandmother. In order to take care of these two dependents, he forsakes his loyal girlfriend for a rich female pharmacist (Andrea Ferriola) and moves in with her and her haughty bourgeois mother and aunts--with disastrous results for all involved.

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • family
  • love
  • greed
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
romance, comedy
Directed by
Mauro Severino
Written by
Mauro Severino, Giuseppe D'Agata
Starring
Gloria Guida, Lando Buzzanca, Andréa Ferréol, Nerina Montagnani, Franca Dominici, Gianna Salvi, Nais Lago, Barbara Bouchet
Music
Gianni Ferrio
Cinematography
Giuseppe Bernardini
Runtime
100 min
Country
Italy
Languages
Italian

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