Cinema: Nastiness, Italian Style

MALIZIA

Directed by SALVATORE SAMPERI

Screenplay by SALVATORE SAMPERI, OTTAVIO JEMMA and ALESSANDRO PARENZO

Malizia is being sold, and in some critical quarters accepted, as a jolly little sex comedy—something on the order of Divorce, Italian Style. Obviously either the power of movie promotion to cloud perceptions or the number of people who find sadism funny has been seriously underestimated. But viewers who bear the title firmly in mind—it means "malice" and is as accurate as they come —may derive a creepy sort of pleasure from Director Samperi's adroit study in perversity.

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