Year: 1978
Duration: 01:00:00
Directed by: Fernando Di Leo
Actors: Gloria Guida, Lilli Carati, Ray Lovelock and Vincenzo Crocitti
Language: English
Country: USA
Also known as: Avere vent’anni, Avoir vingt ans, To Be Twenty, Oben ohne, unten Jeans
Description: The story of two friends-feminists Tina and Lia, who at twenty travel to Italy in search of sexual adventures. But they do not know what awaits them at the end. From director Fernando Di Leo, the author of La mala ordina and Naked Violence
Review of Being Twenty movie: Two girls, young beautiful and, as they put it “hot and really pissed off”, though the source of their anger is never quite clear, They fetch up in Rome having hitchhiked from…well, that’s isn’t revealed.. They flaunt their bodies and tease men, and sometimes women, too. They make love with whoever they want including each other, and hustle money selling encyclopaedias. All this is played out in a noisy and comic vein peculiar to Italian cinema, meaning that’s it’s not for everyone. You increasingly get the feeling that despite the light tone, this isn’t going to end well. These girls are going to get their come-uppance.
It’s an extremely well made film, with excellent photography and comprehensible sub-titles. The girls played by Lilli Catari and Gloria Guida (a big star in Italian sex comedies of this period) are well worth watching and really are hot. Especially the blonde Guida in her skimpy outfits and sometimes a lot less. The denouement is very dark indeed, though it enables you to see the girls in a new light. Not exactly as feminists, but more sympathetic libertines paying a high price for their hedonistic antics.
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