1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties, while his father wants him to take the reins of the family business. He plots to have him kidnapped and placed in a sanitarium, where the young man undergoes electroshock therapy until 'normalised'. Luca is then made to marry a woman who is actually a psychiatrist hired to turn him into a perfect businessman.
Costume
Carla's wardrobe deserves its own film retrospective
Direction
Faenza's psychedelic transitions hit different in 1968
Writing
The premise is deranged and commits fully
Director
Roberto Faenza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the actual May '68 protests, this captures bourgeois panic about youth culture in real-time—Italian cinema's answer to 'the kids are not alright.'
Claudine Auger was fresh off Thunderball; Faenza cast her specifically to weaponize her 'Bond girl' image against male fantasy itself.
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