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Though Pietro Germi's Seduced and Abandoned is about serious things (an underaged girl is raped and impregnated by her sister's fiancé in the first reel, true whether she "gave in" or not), it nevertheless manages to be an absurdist family comedy of the highest order. Absurdist and satirical, springing from Germi's criticism of a law then on the books that one could get away from criminal charges against a woman by marrying her. But Germi takes his time getting to that plot point, for the most part interested in attacking the social order that would vilely shame the victim (and make no mistake, folks, this is THE movie about slut-shaming par excellence), with even the guy not wanting to marry her, jail or not, because she's damaged goods (which he damaged), and the patriarch (who keeps his daughters under lock and key, just coming short of chastity belts) desperate not to have his family name blemished to the point of trying to run a massive con on the town to hide these events. And it's FUNNY because the film is most definitely punching up. The fools and hypocrites are sent up, there are funny side-characters in the justice system, there's an amusing subplot about the spurned daughter being matched to a destitute, suicidal aristocrat (which was right out of Jane Austen), and you're never not with poor abused Agnese who once dreamt of ending up with this older boy. I think the way a certain ring is forced on a certain finger is just about THE image of the tragi-comedy.

3 years 10 months ago

Dieguito

Brilliant movie! A very funny italian style comedy. Just like in Divorzio all'italiana, also from Pietro Germi, the beautiful actress Stefania Sandrelli is the cause of all trouble..

11 years 7 months ago

Skyscore

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12 years 1 month ago