What?
Che?

Year: 1972
Production Country: Italy-France-W Germany
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Featuring: Marcello Mastroianni / Sydne Rome / Hugh Griffith / Romolo Valli / Roman Polanski
Running time: 113min
Certificate: 18

An American innocent Nancy is beset by Old World depravity and male lunacy at a villa in Roman Polanski’s least-known film.

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A delightfully bizarre oddity, Polanski’s least-known film is a light, surreal comedy of sexual manners, with American innocent Nancy (Rome) beset by all manner of Old World depravity and male lunacy at a villa owned by Alex (Mastroianni). A sly, irreverent satire of the wealthy and eccentric at play, the script – by Polanski and long-term collaborator Gérard Brach – revels in modernist narrative trickery; that title tells all...

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