Mia moglie torna a scuola (1981)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Giuliano Carnimeo

Writers:

Gianfranco Couyoumdjian (story)
Giorgio Mariuzzo (screenplay)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Italian Sex Comedy | Male To Female Foot In Crotch | Sex Comedy | Female Nudity | Stockings

Cast

Renzo Montagnani	...	Aristide Buratti
Carmen Russo	...	Valentina Buratti
Cinzia de Ponti	...	Giulia
Marisa Merlini	...	La preside
Enzo Robutti	...	Prof. Pier Capponi
Toni Ucci	...	Gustavo
Roberto Gallozzi
Adriana Giuffrè
Enzo Andronico	...	Presidente della commissione d'esame
Jimmy il Fenomeno	...	Cliente della salumeria
Fabio Grossi
Angelo Fani
Tom Felleghy
Nicoletta Piersanti

Also Known As:

My Wife Goes Back to School (USA)

Runtime:

Italy:82 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Spain:15

REALLY stupid but fairly sexy Italian comedy

Director Guliano Carnimeo directed one of the more memorable (if not necessarily one of the best) gialli, "The Case of the Bloody Irises", as well as interesting and unusual crime drama "Secrets of a Call Girl", both featuring Edwige Fenech. Here though he was apparently reduced to directing a "liceale" (high school-themed) Italian sex comedy. But instead of having Fenech as a sexy teacher or Gloria Guida as a sexy student, he has Carmen Russo playing the pampered young wife of a wealthy butcher who goes back to a private liceale in order to become "cultured". How ANYONE is going to become cultured at this place is hard to fathom. You have the usual gang of ridiculously overaged "students" who do nothing but pull stupid pranks and spy on Russo and her roommate (Cinzia DiPonti) as they shower. The "adults" are even bigger idiots: they include her husband who keeps trying to sneak into the school, the battle-axe of a headmistress who's so sexually frustrated she'll go to bed with an anatomy skeleton, an idiotic professor who Russo's character unaccountably has a crush on, and an enterprising janitor who makes money renting ladders and staging elaborate ruses to help people get in and out of the school.

This is obviously a REALLY dumb movie, but that's kind of like complaining that the hard liquor you're drinking straight out of the bottle doesn't really taste very good--it's hardly the point. Carmen Russo has an incredible body and you get to see all of it several times. Same with Di Ponti (Miss Italy 1979) and several of the other girls. None of the actresses is nearly as talented as Edwige Fenech, or even Gloria Guida, but that's OK I guess. And at least Lino Banfi isn't in this--they more than fill the male idiocy quota without him.