Luciano Salce's deliciously spicy, consistently charming coming-of-age delirium 'Das gewisse Etwas der Frauen' (1966) is an amusingly sprightly, stridently sunny, cappuccino sweet, swingingly sexy, frequently funny, not immoderately saucy bedroom farce with Robert Hoffman, Elsa Martinelli, and Anita Ekberg, with the teasingly exquisite Euro-cult dream Michèle Mercier playing the mesmerically beautiful mathematician that so dutifully assists the young, inexperienced Hoffman conquer his fear of bums, er, sorry, sums! 'How I learned to Love Women' is a seriously slinky, scintillatingly sugary sixties lark about a naive young man (Hoffman) studiously getting to the blissful 'bottom' of the myriad majestic mysteries born of undertaking his youthful exploratory exodus into the sublime, fleshly diorama of physical love! All this fabulously frothy, erotically educational, glamorously glossy, fleet-footed flimflam is groovily burnished with yet another sonorously scrumptious Ennio Morricone score! And it would be enormously remiss of me, almost to the point of a cinematic crime, if I didn't draw worthy attention to the ecstatically effervescent, permissively perky presence of luxuriously lissome, super-sleek, sylphlike starlet Romina Power, the vivacious young lassie so enormously taken by the not-yet manly charms of dashing young, blonde haired blade Roberto Monti (Robert Hoffman). (Happily, I learned to love gleefully glam 60s Italian cinema a very long time ago!)
