A middle-aged architect trades call girls for class — and discovers he's bad at both.
The love life of an aging architect used to love affairs with call girls, who in the end settles down with a girl of his class but still longs for the life he has led so far, which ends in disillusion.
Acting
Rossano Brazzi simmers with self-loathing vanity.
Cinematography
Shadowy Roman interiors that suffocate with respectability.
Director
Gianni Vernuccio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Dino Buzzati's 1963 novel, which was far more sexually explicit than what 1965 Italian censors allowed on screen.
Released during Italy's economic miracle, the film captures the anxiety of newly wealthy men discovering money buys everything except transformation.
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