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In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by
Mauro Bolognini.
Il Bell’Antonio is a tragicomic examination of sexual impotence.
Marcello Mastroianni plays Antonio Magnano, a handsome jock blessed with the problems of a “Don Juan”. But hovering precariously over Antonio’s magnetic effect on women is the fact that he his sexually impotent. After amassing notoriety in Rome, a conflicted Antonio returns home to Catania where tales and gossip of his sexual exploits have taken on mythic proportions. His bombastic father, Alfio Magnano (
Pierre Brasseur) and mother, Rosaria (Rina Morelli), unaware of their son’s problem, push for him to marry the notary’s beautiful daughter, Barbara Puglisi (
Claudia Cardinale). Knowing what this means, Antonio hesitates, but then stumbles across Barbara’s picture, falls in love, and agrees to the marriage...
