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Love and Anarchy
Why this pick
Wertmüller again pairs Giancarlo Giannini with a feverish, vulgar, politically charged Italy, balancing broad comic invention against genuine anger at power and exploitation.
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MOVIE1972 2h 1m ITA
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Why this pick
Its restless working-class ensemble, institutional cynicism and chaotic comic momentum closely echo the class-conscious bite and unruly social satire of The Seduction of Mimi.
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Divorce Italian Style
Why this pick
A sharp Sicilian farce in which desire, honour and law become weapons; it shares Mimi's gleeful caricature, masculine folly and attack on entrenched social hypocrisy.
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Seduced and Abandoned
Why this pick
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Secret Fantasy
Why this pick
This caustic Italian sexual satire similarly uses male vanity and marital games for abrasive comedy, though with a more urbane and intimate focus than Mimi.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Set in both Sicily and mainland Italy, the film follows the adventures of a man nicknamed Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini). Mimi is a poor labourer who is pressured by his employers to vote for the mafia candidate in a local election. Frustrated by the system and assured that the ballot will be secret Mimi votes for the communist representative instead. However he is fired and assured he will never work again as the ballot was not secret. Disgusted Mimi flees to Turin, while his wife, Rosalia, stays in Sicily.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Giancarlo Giannini
Carmelo Mardocheo / Mimí
Tuccio Musumeci
Pasquale
Mariangela Melato
Fiorella Meneghini
Luigi Diberti
Pippino
Turi Ferro
Don Calogero / Vico Tricarico / Salvatore Tricarico