Year: 1974
Duration: 01:39:36
Directed by: Luigi Filippo D’Amico, Ary Fernandes
Actors: Lando Buzzanca, Martine Brochard, Silvia Monti
Language: Italian
Country: Italy
Also known as: My Darling Domestic
Description:
You could possibly in fact inform a lot about the quality of 60’s and 70’s Italian comedies from their lead male actors. The actually low-brow types which were basically one huge fart joke usually highlighted male comics like Alvaro Vitali and/or Lino Banfi, while the most high-brow, sophisticated ones (which were usually not especially funny) included actors like Marcello Mastroanni, Ugo Tognazzi, or Vittorio Gassman. Somewhere between these two extremes would be the comedies of Lando Buzzanca which were somewhat advanced, but still extremely funny and unpretentious. They’re additionally very satirical, specifically the films Buzzanca made with Lucio Fulci, and this one.
Within the movie Il domestico plays a guy whose only real need in life is to end up being the perfect, most loyal domestic servant. He begins away into the army at the end of World War II quickly doing work for an effective industry marshal he never ever really fulfills. Then he is captured by–and serves as a butler for– both the Nazis and the Americans. In post-war Itay he functions for a neo-realist manager along with his voluptuous celebrity wife (Femi Benussi performing Silvana Mangano) and briefly embarks on a misguided profession as a neo-realist “actor”. Next he works for wheel-chair confined senior clergyman, whom insists he take him on regular constitutionals–right down to your regional brothel. There Buzzanca drops for a sympathetic prostitute (Martine Brochard), but things end badly. Next he works for a swinging bisexual the movie and couple quickly transforms into a bedroom farce as each of the couple brings house a same-sex companion while Buzzanca himself is trying to bed a sexy communist shopgirl (Erika Blanc). Eventually, he locates work with a corrupt industrialist and concludes up getting a bag-man in his corrupt transactions. By coincidence, the industrialist is married to his former prostitute/lover (Brochard). Buzzanca gets right back together along with her and additionally dutifully “cures” the couple’s cross-eyed, virgin, nymphomaniacal child (Leanora Fani), at the very least to be cross-eyed and a virgin.
Obviously,there’s some rich satire here of different targets including the armed forces, the clergy, communists, neo-realists, 60’s swingers, corrupt industrialists, cross-eyed nympho virgins, etc. This kind of like Voltaire’s “Candide” in it virtually savages EVERYONE, not the very least of all its very own misguided protagonist. It isn’t quite as laugh-out-loud funny as a few of the things Il domestico performed with Fulci like “The Eroticist”. And it’s really not quite the hot intercourse romp you’d expect with Brochard AND Benussi AND Blanc AND Fani in the cast. Still, these four actresses were all in plenty of films in the 70’s where they were little more than nice pieces of tail, so it’s nice to see them stretch themselves a little in a somewhat more classy movie. As for Buzzanca, he is great as always. This doesn’t seem like the kind of film that will ever see a decent English-language DVD release (or even an Italian one), but it’s definitely a worthwhile film if you want to try to seek it out.
Review:
Screenshots:
Download:
