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ComedyDramaRomance

Bambina

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In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl...

Release Date : 1974-09-17

Language :Italian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Clesi CinematograficaRelic

Production Country : Italy

Alternative Titles : Bambina

Cast

Gigi Proietti

Character Name : Saverio Mazzacolli

Original Name : Gigi Proietti

Gender : Male

Irene Papas

Character Name : Raimonda Spina

Original Name : Irene Papas

Gender : Female

Teresa Ann Savoy

Character Name : Clotilde Spina

Original Name : Teresa Ann Savoy

Gender : Female

Mario Scaccia

Character Name : Don Amilcare de Loyola

Original Name : Mario Scaccia

Gender : Male

Bruno Cirino

Character Name : Peppe Colizzi

Original Name : Bruno Cirino

Gender : Male

Lina Polito

Character Name : Concettina

Original Name : Lina Polito

Gender : Female

Isa Miranda

Character Name : Lorè

Original Name : Isa Miranda

Gender : Female

Pia Attanasio Fioretti

Character Name : nonna Anastasia

Original Name : Pia Attanasio Fioretti

Gender : Male

Nina De Padova

Character Name : balia Anna

Original Name : Nina De Padova

Gender : Male

Gabriella Cammelli Severi

Character Name : cameriera

Original Name : Gabriella Cammelli Severi

Gender : Male

Daniela Caroli

Character Name : Carmela

Original Name : Daniela Caroli

Gender : Female

Alberto Lattuada

Character Name : medico

Original Name : Alberto Lattuada

Gender : Male

Reviews

M

MoHA

@merenabe

2021-06-23

A handsome Italian businessman is trying to procure some land and some financing for a project from a wealthy contessa (Irene Papas). He sleeps with the woman and thinks he has sealed the deal, but then she insists that he marry her demented teenage daughter (Teresa Anne Savoy). He hatches an elaborate scheme to get out of the marriage: he is going to have the girl kidnapped and raped so he can claim she is not a virgin and have the marriage annulled (did I mention this is a COMEDY?!). This is pretty disturbing stuff frankly, but not because of the kidnapping and rape scheme (which pretty quickly goes awry). It may not seem to exactly be every middle-aged man's worst nightmare to have to marry a sexy teenager--and the then eighteen-year-old Savoy was definitely a sexy teenager. However, her character literally has the mentality of a two year old throughout most of the movie--she sucks on the protagonist's thumb and cries when he takes it away, she giggles and squirms while he gives her a bath, etc. Of course, she doesn't consistently act infantile--at times she seems seductive or even nymphomaniacal, and he eventually falls for her. If you take this purely as an absurdist comedy, it's pretty harmless I guess. But if it's meant to be erotic, it's pretty damn disturbing unless you have some weird thing for female "adult babies". (I mean if you like your wife or girlfriend to act like an 18-year-old schoolgirl, that's a little kinky. If you're actually dating an 18 year old, well, that's certainly not illegal. But if you have an eighteen-year-old girlfriend and you like her to pretend like she's two, I'd say you have some serious problems. . .) Savoy went on to star in a couple Tinto Brass films, "Salon Kitty" and "Caligula", where she had just as many nude scenes, but did NOT act like a two year old. Alberto Lattuado, like a lot of French and Italian directors of that era it seems, is a bit of a "Humbert Humbert"--besides this, he directed "Dulce Enganni" where Catherine Spaak plays a schoolgirl involved with an older man and "Stay the Way You Are" where Marcello Masroanni plays a man who has an affair with sexy university student Nastassia Kinski, who may actually be his daughter. He was actually a pretty classy director though, and his movies are usually funnier and a lot less disturbing than they sound on paper. I don't a know about THIS particular one though. . .