Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, Anna Carla’s gay friend. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murder happens...
Acting
Mastroianni's exhausted, smitten commissioner is pure cinematic catnip.
Direction
Comencini balances farce and genuine melancholy with surgical precision.
Costume
1970s Turin high society dressing like their secrets are already out.
Director
Luigi Comencini
Marcello Mastroianni
Salvatore Santamaria
Jacqueline Bisset
Anna Carla Dosio
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Massimo Campi
Aldo Reggiani
Lello Riviera
Maria Teresa Albani
Virginia Tabusso
Omero Antonutti
Benito
Gigi Ballista
Vollero
Claudio Gora
Garrone
Pino Caruso
Police Commissioner De Palma
Giuseppe Anatrelli
Chief of Police
Antonio Orlando
Barber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini's novel, which helped pioneer the 'intellectual giallo' subgenre less concerned with blood than social rot.
The 'Sunday woman' title refers to a specific type of kept mistress in Italian bourgeois society—available weekends, invisible weekdays—making the film's sexual politics quietly devastating.
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