FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Lina Wertmüller - Love & Anarchy 

The feminists never liked her: Lina Wertmüller, whose film Love And Anarchy mutated into a hate object at the time. That's what my father explained to me. Performance Tunin (Giancarlo Giannini), a farmer and anarchist full of ideals. He plans an assassination attempt on Mussolini. At his side the loudmouthed whore Salome (Mariangela Melato, whose headquarters is a lewd brothel in Rome. The harem of prostitutes got director Wertmüller into trouble at the time, as she approaches them in a mixture of slapstick and voyeurism. She was accused of presenting women as sex objects. In a 1973 interview, Wertmüller dismissed this as silly and described herself as a feminist. And indeed, Wertmueller's whores are always one step ahead of all the others in the film. Do they know more? Isn't Tripolina (Lina Polito) the true heroine of the film? Above all, Love And Anarchy is about the inability of man to change anything in his world. Love And Anarchy sounds absurd and hilarious, but it masks all the frustration about human nature itself. And doesn't Tunin's brutality prove all the hopelessness of the lower class? Giannini plays him like a silent movie character with a wiggly walk and staring, uncomprehending eyes. A sad clown, noble and just as silly. Melato, with her booming voice, provides a successful contrast. Take the test and invite a few people to the video evening. Will feminists still feel offended today? Or perhaps even more so? When we once performed Wertmüller in our open air cinema, there were strong reactions.