THE MAGNIFICENT CUCKOLD

This luscious adaptation of Fernand Crommelynck’s tale of obsession and delusion skewers the tenacious Sixties prejudices of Italian society with style. A happily married businessman (Ugo Tognazzi, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES) succumbs to the advances of one of his less square, more open-minded female friends. His eyes now open to the rampant adultery among his high-society acquaintances, he is amazed at the ease with which they lie to their loved ones. Soon, he begins to suspect his loving wife (Claudia Cardinale, THE LEOPARD) of infidelity – even as she guesses nothing of his own extramarital affair.