Pietro Germi - Signore & signori AKA The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1965)

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The Italian way with sex was hugely popular with foreign (and Italian) movie audiences in the early-to-mid 1960s, and no one had a way with the Italian sex comedy like Pietro Germi. This entry, co-winner of Best Film honours at Cannes in 1966, was the third work in a trilogy of award-winning Germi satires that began with Divorzio all'italiana and Sedotta e abbandonata.

Signore e signori sets three farcical tales of illicit sex and middle-class hypocrisy in a small northern Italian town. In the first, a man feigns impotence so that he may seduce another man's wife without suspicion. In the second, a hen-pecked husband leaves his wife for another woman, and incurs the heavy-hand wrath of the state. In the third, several men seduce a farmer's daughter, only to discover that she is underage. Germi's naughty film was not released in the English-speaking world until 1968; changing fashions and a new permissiveness had already dated it, and critics savaged its broad humour and hypocritical modesty. A movie about sex that dares to show so little of it, wrote one, "can expect to die a death of strangulation on its own chastity belt".

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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Pietro Germi - Signore & signori AKA The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1965)

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