Viimeinen nainen (1976)

Viimeinen nainen (1976). 1h 52m | X

“The good news is this movie features some gratuitous nudity from the beauteous Italian actress Ornella Muti. The bad news is it features far, far more gratuitous nudity from the not-so-beauteous and quite corpulent French actor Gerard Depardieu. This is another slice of Italo-Gallic insanity from director Marco Ferreti. It somewhat resembles his later, more famous film u0026quot;Ciao, Monkeyu0026quot;, but instead of a baby monkey, Depardieuu0026#39;s character has a chubby human baby. But like the monkey in the later film, the male baby is largely a metaphor for the perpetual narcissistic infantilism of Depardieuu0026#39;s character.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDepardieu plays a single father whose feminist wife leaves him alone with their small baby. This doesnu0026#39;t slow down his inveterate womanizing,however, and he soon starts an affair with a young daycare teacher (Muti). Itu0026#39;s a little disturbing, especially by modern-day standards, the way Depardieu and Muti engage in naked foreplay pretty much right in front of the baby (although they do have the decency to go into the next room to actually screw). Children that young have little memory, however, so Iu0026#39;m sure the infant actor was much less traumatized by Depardiueu0026#39;s bloated nude body than I was. Anyway, thereu0026#39;s a lot of melodrama involving the Depardieu characteru0026#39;s continuing compulsive infidelities and his feelings of male irrelevancy in the face of feminism and female sexual liberation. In fact, if the male organ with its insatiable appetites, extreme insecurities, and fickle nature somehow became an actual person it would be just like Depardieuu0026#39;s character in this movie. (So basically, Depardieu here plays a big chubby dick).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs other reviewers have said,the end of this movie is quite shocking– Depardieu is harpooned by Captain Ahab and he drags him, his ship, and his entire crew to the bottom of the ocean. . . Oh wait, that was u0026quot;Moby Dicku0026quot;. Well, the end of this movie is even more shocking, especially if youu0026#39;re male. Depardieu does give a very good performance, so I certainly would recommend this to his fans. Muti is not as good (but, oh man, is she beautiful), and this film really marks her transition to the kind of daring art films she is best known for (and without which sheu0026#39;d be a forgotten Italian version of Brooke Shields today) And whatever you can say about Marco Ferretiu0026#39;s films, theyu0026#39;re definitely NOT dull. This not great, but check it out if it sounds interesting to you.”