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Boccaccio '70

The first 4-act motion picture ever presented!

1962 · 3h 24m · Unrated Comedy, Romance
Directed by Vittorio De Sica , Federico Fellini , Luchino Visconti , Mario Monicelli

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An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

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Fresh

It has glamour, sophistication, color, wit and sensuality (not necessarily in that order), all of which blend very well in the enveloping air of a facility that is to be devoted to the showing of sophisticated films.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten

De Sica and Monicelli went for broader, more traditional comedic effect -- less pretentious, but perhaps inevitably in this company, less memorable.

Time Out

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