Sexy Italian Movies of 70s
I believe that Italian movies are essential to understanding Life in Italy. La commedia all’ Italiana shows best of Italy, always with a touch of irony. One different aspect of the Italian movie comedy is the 70s sexy comedy (olso referred to as commedia Trash), a style of its own that definitely has its followers. We can compare this type of comedy perhaps with Cheech and Chong, but sex or the search for sex, not smoke, is what the movie was all about.
Popular actors of this genre included Lando Buzzanca, Lino Banfi, Mario Carotenuto, Aldo Giuffre’, Aldo Maccione, Pippo Franco, Bombolo, Renato Pozzetto, Gianfranco D’ Angelo, Alvaro Vitali,Renzo Montagnani, Edwige Fenech, Laura Antonelli,Gloria Guida, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Barbara Bouchet,Carmen Villani.
Most of the protagonists of the Italian Trash comedy of the 1970s and 1980s later abandoned this genre and continued their careers both in cinema and theater taking more serious roles. The Italian Trash comedy was bot a spy of its times and a reaction to the previous Italian movie history. Italian cinema was forced to show idealistic and unrealistic movies during the fascist regime and reacted with the neorealism. However the public soon got tired of this dark portray of life and comedies (good comedies ) ruled the 1950s and 1960s. Censorship in Italy in the 1960s was however still strong and it did not relax till the 1970s when the sexy-comedy style (commedia sexy or commedia all’ italiana) was finally born. The style is never pornographic but it plays on sexy-comic situation with want to be super machos like Lando Buzzanca and later Christian De Sica go after super sexy bombs like Edwidge Fenech (queen of the Commedia sexy ) –
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