1962: Massage therapists The influence of neorealism is felt. Yes, and political satire slips, but all this is quickly cut off. The film, alas, turns out to be in the strict khaner grip of vulgar comedy.
Chekhov’s characters are small men who are actively engaged in business and building new neighborhoods. They appeal to morality, worry about the youth, superficially decent and immediately sobb at any doubt. But the film is about their flip side - passion for beautiful women. An announcement in the newspaper, a doubt and an awkward meeting and now - the heroes go on a trip with a prostitute, posing as their wife.
Is there anything amazing here? The plot is already quite beaten. Even a new wife won’t save anything. But Fulci decided to try, speeding up the pace along the tape. More and more fuss around me began to remind me of the tapes of the Marx brothers. Too much movement, too many gags, and no exact hits at all - not funny.
Even the young Noiret and Silva Koshina showed nothing intelligible. And in the remainder, we can see the usual comedy about “decency”. Italians and women, adultery.
Unless, here you can speculate about the tape in the context of the year of release. The year 1962 is about sex, psychology and entertainment. And the tape is very consistent with the then trends. It's like someone allowed producers to talk about prostitution. And in terms of cuteness, as a matter of course. Why? The world was moving away from the terrible war and it was already possible to peer into the contours of the seventies.
3 out of 10