LOVE AND ANARCHY

The greatest anti-fascist sex worker romantic comedy you’ve never seen, Lina Wertmüller’s LOVE AND ANARCHY is a bawdy, beautiful, and brilliant masterpiece that demands to be rediscovered. On the eve of World War II, after the rise of fascist Italy, a newly radicalized farmer conspires with an anarchist sex worker to assassinate Benito Mussolini. While posing as her cousin in a high-end Roman brothel, the farmer falls in love with one of the girls and questions his dedication to the cause. Anchored by two dynamic performances from Wertmüller’s favorite actors and collaborators Mariangela Melato and Giancarlo Giannini, LOVE AND ANARCHY is a film of operatic emotion and subversive comedy - and a powerful statement on the terror of fascism and the ignoble fates of those who challenged it.