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That Malicious Age

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That Malicious Age
ItalianQuella Età Maliziosa
Directed bySilvio Amadio
Written bySilvio Amadio
Piero Regnoli
Produced byDomizia Cinematografia
Starring
CinematographyAntonio Maccoppi
Edited bySilvio Amadio
Music byRoberto Pregadio
Distributed byHVW Focus (West Germany)
Release dates
  • 11 March 1975 (1975-03-11) (Italy)
  • 3 April 1981 (1981-04-03) (West Germany)
  • 23 December 1981 (1981-12-23) (France)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

That Malicious Age (Italian: Quella età maliziosa) is a 1975 Italian erotic drama film co-written and directed by Silvio Amadio. It features Nino Castelnuovo and Gloria Guida.[1]

Plot

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Napoleone (Castelnuovo) is an artist bored of his married life and applies to work as a gardener at a summer mansion. On his way to Elba, he meets an attractive teenage girl (Guida) who attempts to seduce him and when he gets to the mansion, he learns that she is Paola, his employers' daughter living with her mother (Anita Sanders) and stepfather (Silvio Amadio). The mother is soon attracted to Napoleone but he has a growing affection for Paola, fuelled by her flirtatious behavior and his passion eventually turns into violence against a mentally disturbed fisherman (Mimmo Palmara) courting Paola.

Cast

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Guida as Paola in the film

Critical reception

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The film was generally badly received by critics. Italian critic Paolo Mereghetti described the film as "unresolved", noting the ambitious efforts to combine melodramatic tension, psychological introspection and class morality but concluding that these aspirations ended up getting lost in long sequences of silences and panoramic views.[2] The review of the website LongTake pointed out the unconvincing "awkward juxtaposition (rather than contamination) of genres" of the film, which starts as a commedia erotica abruptly turning to drama, and refers to the film as "uncertain, confused, approximate, annoyingly misogynistic".[3]

References

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  1. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.
  2. ^ Paolo Mereghetti (2006). "Quella età maliziosa". Il Mereghetti. Baldini & Castoldi.
  3. ^ "Quella età maliziosa (review)". LongTake (in Italian). Retrieved 28 September 2021.
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