Mogliamante (1977)

Mogliamante (Wifemistress)
Directed by Marco Vicario
Written by Rudolfo Sonego and Marco Vicario
1977/Italy
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First viewing/YouTube

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. — Walter Scott

This is a good movie about a delicious revenge.

Beautiful young Antonia De Angelis (Laura Antonelli) has been married off to the much older wine merchant Luigi (Marcello Mastroianni).  She is miserable and is now confined to bed with “progressive paralysis”.  This seems to have been induced by a combo of pills and persuasion.  It leaves Luigi free to take endless business trips.

Then suddenly Luigi goes missing, and is presumed dead.  Actually, he is hiding out over the shop across the street from his house where he can keep an eye on Antonia.

He watches as she miraculously recovers and takes over his business.  She learns a lot about Luigi because his horse and carriage automatically stops at the places he used to frequent.  Most of these featured far more pleasure than business.  She learns about his wild sex life and also about his plans and dreams.  Slowly, Antonia’s yearning for revenge leads to the sexual awakening of the previously frigid ice princess.  Luigi cannot avoid being a witness to this.

This was a very watchable film (particularly Mastroianni).  Not a must-see but I’m glad I saw it.  Thanks for the tip Mr. Laurie.

Clip – dubbed; I watched subbed

A short tribute to my Marcello