
Adultero lui, adultera lei
1963

Representation Score
Limited
1979
Director
Mauro Ivaldi
Runtime
115 minutes
Average Rating
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L'anello matrimoniale offers a nuanced look at domestic power dynamics by focusing on a woman's negotiation of sexual freedom. This challenges traditional gender roles within a comedic framework. However, the film's impact is limited by its narrow social scope, which remains strictly straight-centered and lacks ethnic or cultural diversity. While it deconstructs certain marital sanctities, it fails to engage with broader multi-layered identities or systemic social critiques.
Category Breakdown
The film centers around a heterosexual couple and a male neighbor, with no representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-cisgender narratives.
Monica plays a significant role in driving the story by negotiating her sexual autonomy, challenging traditional gender roles. Her husband's tolerant response breaks away from typical patriarchal expectations.
The film appears to center on a homogeneous social group, with no indication of diverse ethnic or racial backgrounds.
The story challenges traditional views on marriage by presenting consensual non-monogamy as a negotiable arrangement, but it lacks broader systemic or anti-capitalist critiques.
The film provides no evidence of characters with physical or neurodivergent disabilities.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
Monica, the young wife of a luminary plastic surgeon, and the mother of a little girl, is tempted to sleep with a handsome neighbor: Giorgio, the owner of a beauty salon and the father of a boy. Since she is very much in love with her husband, she asks him for permission to yield to Giorgio, very insistent on her point. The surgeon, tolerant, gives her permission ...

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