An actress, director and writer. Intense, sensual, eclectic. She began by interpreting existential angst and emptiness, and then she moved on to the films of the golden age of Italian comedy. Talking about Monica Vitti means telling the story of the evolution of Italian cinema. She was an actress "physically" at odds with the chesty pinups of her era, and yet she managed to tra...
Ugo (Ugo Tognazzi) is comfortably married to Lisa (Monica Vitti), he nonetheless takes up with pretty (and fetchingly underdressed) American Patty (Barbara Bouchet). In retalitaiton, Lisa begins an affair with French count Jean Claude (John Richardson), arousing Ugo’s jealousy. At his request, the four members of this romantic quadrangle repair to a summer house to come to a “c...