Sessomatto (1973, Italy)

This is an absolutely dire sex comedy, in several separate sketches (reminding me of Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex).

Giancarlo Giannini plays the lead role in each episode, in most cases a frustrated and pathetic loser. The comedy is awful and the acting is terrible; the dialogue is weak.

In the sketch "Un amore difficile" (a difficult romance), we see some prostitutes in a city street; when there is a police raid, one of them hides in a bar and gets into conversation with Giannini's character, Nino ("Saturnino"). Her suspect body language is confirmed when we see a close-up -- it's a rather unattractive travesti hooker. Nino buys her a beer but his lack of conversation (and money) makes him an unattractive prospect, and she eventually goes off with someone wealthier. He calls her a prostitute, but tells himself that if she doesn't come back to him, she might not be a prostitute, and if she does, she probably is.

However she does come back after seeing at least two clients, and for some reason she takes him home and they have a rather tense dinner together.

Just after this there is an unexplained jump cut to a scene with a lot of dubious looking transvestites having an argument, claiming to be ladies (even though one of them is called Giuseppe). Gilda is there, and Gilda's wife turns up to say that their son is ill.

It's a daft film. An English language version has been released under the title How Funny Can Sex Be?

HF July 2010

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