Il Bell'Antonio

1960
Italy/France
105 min
15

Directed by: Mauro Bolognini
Written by: Vitaliano Brancati, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale
Language: Italian

Mastroianni is cast as the devastatingly attractive yet impotent lothario Antonio. Tales and gossip of his sexual exploits in Rome reach his hometown of Catania, where his parents plan for him to be married to the notary's beautiful daughter. Angst falls upon the young man and fears that his secret will be revealed heighten in this tragicomic inspection of Italian machismo.