Monica Vitti hears voices and commits crimes against monotony in this unhinged Italian housewife fever dream.
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary.
Acting
Vitti's elastic face—comedy and desperation in one twitch.
Direction
Giraldi weaponizes domestic spaces as psychological battlegrounds.
Director
Franco Giraldi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Italy's divorce referendum era, the film weaponizes comedy to interrogate why women were literally voting to escape marriage.
Vitti allegedly improvised several of her manic household destruction scenes after Giraldi told her to 'destroy what you actually hate.'
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