Presented in collaboration with CinemaItalia.

Sunday's screening will have a live introduction with speaker TBC.

This film is part of a season celebrating the films of Italian director Lina Wertmüller, running from April to June.

You can find the other films in the season and information about our wider year-long season spotlighting international female filmmakers, here.

Wertmüller's signature style of playfully distorted caricature and sharp political satire found its first full expression in this delightful and wickedly funny skewering of Italian class and labor relations. Fleeing from the mob, Sicilian laborer Mimi (Giannini) abandons his family to escape to Milan where he promptly falls in love with a hippie radical and is pulled into the far left of a political struggle he little understands. Refracted through the cracked prism of Giannini's feckless Southerner, Italy's troubled North-South relations and the never-ending battle of the sexes are woven into an operatic comedy about the alienation of labor in the 20th century.- Harvard Film Archive

Original language: Italian

Presented with English subtitles