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Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Film
DirectorVittorio De Sica
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Figures

Form & technique
  • The film's omnibus (anthology) structure
Tropes
  • Giant billboard of Anita Ekberg in "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio" → The Carnivalesque
  • The financial arrangement between Pupe and Ottavio in "Il lavoro"
  • Zoe's decision to raffle herself off in "La riffa"
  • The clash between provincial life and modern consumerism in "La riffa"
  • Dottor Antonio's obsessive campaign against the billboard
  • The film's thematic and stylistic disunity across its four segments

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