Frivolous games

Movie
German title	Frivolous games
Original title	Se permettete parliamo di donne
Country of production	Italy , France
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1964
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Ettore Scola
script	Ruggero Maccari; Ettore Scola
production	Mario Cecchi Gori
music	Armando Trovajoli
camera	Alessandro D'Eva
cut	Marcello Malvestito
occupation
	Vittorio Gassman : different roles; Giovanna Ralli : Prostitute (3rd episode); Sylva Koscina : Young Woman (5th episode); Walter Chiari : The Schooner (6th episode); Antonella Lualdi : fiancee; Gigi Proietti : Omero; Maria Fiore : Anxious woman; Edda Ferronao : Willing girl; Mario Lucidi : son; Attilio Dottesio : prison worker;

The Italian episode film Frivole Games was Ettore Scola's directorial debut in 1964 . The original title Se permettete parliamo di donne means something like "Let's talk about women". The eight episodes of different lengths were written by Scola and Ruggero Maccari . In each episode Vittorio Gassman plays a different role. The film is a Commedia all'italiana , some of the episodes are designed as erotic comedies. The stories are about the change in values and morals in the time of the Italian economic miracle. They are populated by cheating men and women, philanderers and prostitutes, millionaires and brides, and the automobile occupies a central position as a means of tinkering. In retrospect, Scola said that he was satisfied with his first film, and that it had also sold well, which made it easier for him to make other films afterwards.

criticism

"Greed for sexual union", in 1967 the Catholic film service saw the theme of the film, which varied only minimally. He advised against attending the “film that was inferior in every respect”, in which taste was in short supply. "In vain one asks oneself what could have induced actors of some name, even if mostly not very high-ranking, not to work so much in a film on this subject, but rather in this miserable cut." The Evangelical Film Director drew a similar conclusion. Observer : "Pleasantly and flatly designed, for that reason alone - quite apart from objections to the questionable concept of love - not to be recommended."

In comparison with This time we talk about the men (1965), which resembles Scola's film almost only in the original title, said Spagnoletti (1988), Scola's episodes “do not take sides, taken together, but expose them. With its grotesque and simplistic undertones, the film describes a reality of constant transgression and observes the violation of values with irony. "

Web links

Frivolous games in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The film at comingsoon.it

Individual evidence

↑ Ettore Scola interviewed by Jean A. Gili: Ettore Scola. Une pensée graphique. Isthme Editions, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-35409-015-9 , p. 75
↑ film-dienst , No. 37/1967, drawn by "Mg."
↑ Critique No. 233/1967
^ Giovanni Spagnoletti: Questa volta parliamo di uomini . In: Peter W. Jansen and Wolfram Schütte (eds.): Lina Wertmüller . Film series No. 40. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-446-15155-9 , p. 97

[1] Ettore Scola interviewed by Jean A. Gili: Ettore Scola. Une pensée graphique. Isthme Editions, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-35409-015-9 , p. 75

[2] film-dienst , No. 37/1967, drawn by "Mg."

[3] Critique No. 233/1967

[4] Giovanni Spagnoletti: Questa volta parliamo di uomini . In: Peter W. Jansen and Wolfram Schütte (eds.): Lina Wertmüller . Film series No. 40. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-446-15155-9 , p. 97