Seduced & Abandoned - Criterion Collection
by Pietro Germi
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Actor: Aldo Puglisi, Lando Buzzanca, Lola Braccini, Saro Urz?, Stefania SandrelliDirector: Pietro Germi
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Aiace Parolin
Writer: Pietro Germi
Producer: Franco Cristaldi
Producer: Luigi Giacosi
Writer: Agenore Incrocci
Writer: Furio Scarpelli
Writer: Luciano Vincenzoni
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Seduced & Abandoned - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Sad and funny at the same time
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie. It is very funny and extremely tragic at the same time. Both features don't contradict, but support each other.
Summary of Seduced & Abandoned - Criterion Collection
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 08/29/2006The graceful, biting, deadpan humor of Italian director Pietro Germi has no parallel; it fuses the sly wit of Ernst Lubitsch with the bilious social critique of Luis Bunuel. In Seduced and Abandoned, the blackest of black comedies, a young girl named Agnese (the delectable Stefania Sandrelli, fresh from Germi's Divorce Italian Style) is seduced by her sister's fiance, setting in motion a series of increasingly deranged pretenses by which Agnese's apoplectic father (the volcanic Saro Urzi) attempts to salvage the family honor. Central to everything is a legal code that states if a rapist marries his victim, all wrongdoing is forgiven. Germi, appalled at this distorted justice, attacks it with propulsive satire, clawing at sexual double standards, macho hypocrisy, and small town oppression along the way. Seduced and Abandoned tears along like a race car down a steep mountain road, turning and lurching in all directions. Its exhilarating momentum escalates into an outright horror film, with all of Italian society as the monster. The ferocity of Germi's characters and the savage ending are almost unbearable; the movie, though almost 50 years old, can still inspire outrage. Accompanied by a few sparkling extras, including a brief interview from 2002 with Sandrelli, still one of the loveliest women in cinema. --Bret Fetzer
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