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Bookmark this pageVenial Sin (1973)
Director: Salvatore Samperi
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From Time Out Film Guide
The sin is venial but the film is barely excusable: yet another saga of a boy's sentimental education, softcore in format and with a nasty puritanism beneath a wafer-thin fashionable permissiveness (we are supposed to laugh when father thanks the Lord that his boy is not gay after all). Basically, on a family vacation by the seaside, kid brother (Momo) works out his adolescent pangs through a crush, eventually consummated, on his big sister-in-law (Antonelli). The generally lame and/or slushy performances are not even relieved by the bursts of humour, which are on a par with tenth rate graffiti; the camerawork is ploddingly intimate, with - of course - the climactic misty lens; and the score is spectacularly awful pasta muzak.Author: IB
Cast & crew
Director: Salvatore Samperi
Producer: Silvio Clementelli
Cast: Laura Antonelli, Alessandro Momo, Orazio Orlando, Lilla Brignone, Tino Carraro full cast
Duration: 97 mins
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