Decameron n° 3 – Le più belle donne del Boccaccio

1972

Consists of seven tales: 1. Filippa is prosecuted for adultery and strips for the judge. 2. A man fakes infidelity to see if his wife will take revenge. 3. Lidia is unfaithful in front of her husband and tricks him into thinking that it is all an illusion. 4. Isabella is making love to her lover in the bedroom when her husband suddenly comes home. 5. A new widow celebrates by pitting her lovers against […]

Suburban Wives

1972

Seven stories of marital infidelity, told from the women’s point of view. A spicy satire of modern manners and mores. Newspaperwoman Sarah relates the separate stories of eight married couples. The husbands are satisfied with their lot, but the wives are not. Sarah describes a situation in which dissatisfied and bored middle-class housewives seek excitement and adventure outside their marital homes and beds.

Crazy Sex

1976
February 27, 2019

Shaw Brothers super director Li Han-Hsiang was particularly masterful in two genres: erotica and classic Chinese tales. He combined these two loves in this two-part examination of lust. The first story is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape. The second features an elderly jeweler’s adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello.

Happy, Happy (aka Sykt lykkelig)

2010
February 26, 2019

Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she “isn’t particularly attractive” anymore. Whatever. That’s life. But when “the perfect couple” moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in […]