That Malicious Age

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That Malicious Age
ItalianQuella Età Maliziosa
Directed bySilvio Amadio
Written bySilvio Amadio
Piero Regnoli
Produced byDomizia Cinematografia
Starring
CinematographyAntonio Maccoppi
Edited bySilvio Amadio
Music byRoberto Pregadio
Distributed byHVW Focus (West Germany)
Release dates
  • 11 March 1975 (1975-03-11) (Italy)
  • 3 April 1981 (1981-04-03) (West Germany)
  • 23 December 1981 (1981-12-23) (France)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

That Malicious Age (

drama film co-written and directed by Silvio Amadio. It features Nino Castelnuovo and Gloria Guida.[1]

Plot

Napoleone (Castelnuovo) is an artist bored of his married life and applies to work as a gardener at a summer mansion. On his way to Elba, he meets an attractive teenage girl (Guida) who attempts to seduce him and when he gets to the mansion, he learns that she is Paola, his employers' daughter living with her mother (Anita Sanders) and stepfather (Silvio Amadio). The mother is soon attracted to Napoleone but he has a growing affection for Paola, fuelled by her flirtatious behavior and his passion eventually turns into violence against a mentally disturbed fisherman (Mimmo Palmara) courting Paola.

Cast

Critical reception

The film was generally badly received by critics. Italian critic

commedia erotica abruptly turning to drama, and refers to the film as "uncertain, confused, approximate, annoyingly misogynistic".[3]

References

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  2. ^ Paolo Mereghetti (2006). "Quella età maliziosa". Il Mereghetti. Baldini & Castoldi.
  3. ^ "Quella età maliziosa (review)". LongTake (in Italian). Retrieved 28 September 2021.

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