1967. Monica Vitti plays the beautiful Boccadoro, daughter of a game warden and lusted over by the uncouth and misogynistic knight, Guerrando de Montone. The film, released for English-speaking audiences as The Chastity Belt, follows the tricks Boccadoro plays to avoid having to go to bed with Guerrando. It’s slapstick stuff, pretty much as far a cry as it could be from the bleak, heavyweight films in which Michelangelo Antonioni cast her.
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