Malizia erotica

As the previous reviewer said this is a strange and very uneven European sex comedy. Some things are relatively clever such as the opening scene where the youthful protagonist gets involved in a prostitution scam, or a sub-plot where the protagonist's unfaithful mother tries to get a fur coat her lover has given her past her dimwitted husband by pawning it and claiming she found the pawn ticket in a cab (tragicallly for her, she trusts her equally dimwitted son to pick it up). Unfortunaely though, the main plot is pretty stupid: an adolescent boy buys a periscope so he can spy on the two swinging, bisexual nurses that live above his family's apartment (one of whom is played by exploitation legend Laura Gemser), and, well, that's about it. There's also some REALLY stupid scenes, even by Euro sex comedy standards, like the one where the kid wakes up from a wet dream with a great "pain in his groin" and his clueless parents actually call Nurse Gemser down to manually "relieve" him.

This movie (also called "Malizia Erotica") was probably somewhat inspired by the successful Laura Antonelli film "Malizia" where a disturbed adolescent spies on and eventually sexually blackmails his maid/step-mother-to-be. This movie though is much more silly and not nearly as dark or perverse as that one, and it's not particularly funny either. Gemser definitely has her charms, but she's not in the acting class of the other Laura. This movie was directed by Jose Larraz, who made some very decent horror movies in Britain ("Symptoms", "Vampyres")and some interesting Eurotica ("Coming of Sin"), but is kind of out of his element doing comedy.

The cut I saw was equally strange. It was very tame in places, but then would have brief jarring close-ups of female masturbation or something (I suspect it at one time had had hardcore inserts added and then clumsily removed). The masturbation inserts are not Gemser I'm sure (who never did hardcore), but she has plenty of nude scenes, as do the two Spanish actresses who play Gemser's roommate and the protagonist's mother. Like ALL Larraz and Gemser films I've seen, it definitely doesn't disappoint in that department. You could do worse I guess.