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THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI
1972
Director
Lina Wertmüller
Starring
Giancarlo Giannini
Mariangela Melato
Agostina Belli
Runtime
121 minutes
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Director Lina Wertmüller's signature style of playfully distorted caricature and sharp political satire found its first full expression in the delightful and wickedly funny THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI.
Giancarlo Giannini gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato), with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.
A blistering satire about the alienation of labor in the 20th century, THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI takes aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power. "Screw your Communism! I'm a cuckold!"
Director Lina Wertmüller's signature style of playfully distorted caricature and sharp political satire found its first full expression in the delightful and wickedly funny THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI.
Giancarlo Giannini gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato), with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.
A blistering satire about the alienation of labor in the 20th century, THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI takes aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power. "Screw your Communism! I'm a cuckold!"