How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973)

Originally a movie of eleven segments, it has been cut down to eight. In each brief episode we watch Giannini in some kind of sexual escapade, predicament, or buffoonery, from a bout with an overweight Milanese drag queen to an erotic dream about a nun (Laura Antonelli) at a hospital where he has volunteered as an artificial insemination donor.

One of the innumerable portmanteau films produced in Italy since the 1950s; many had been helmed by multiple directors and featured the most popular film stars of the time. Some other examples, however, were made by one director as a vehicle for a particular star’s versatility (for instance, Nino Manfredi in Lina Wertmuller’s LET’S TALK ABOUT MEN [1965]). This one, in fact, follows the latter trend and featured Giancarlo Giannini and Laura Antonelli in all (but one, in her case) nine segments. However, with the 70s, a lot of vulgarity had seeped into Italian comedy and, with a title like that, the film under review here certainly falls into this category – despite the respectable fare with which both Risi and Giannini were typically associated!

DVDRip | XviD @ 1395kbps | 25fps | 704 x 368 | Italian AC3 (224) | EN, ES, IT, SB srt | 110min | 1,26GB + 5%