Very best movie i ever watch

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

One of the best films i have seen

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This is an unexpected gem. Basicly the film has a dream like quality, similar to Fellini, with repetition accentuating this, with reality revolving and entwinning. The set design and setting itself alone is unbelievable, with seemingly every cool visual icon from the sixties in evidence, in the form of paintings, sculpture and decor. The film is sexualised in an oddly distanced and offhand manor, which I guess was part of the zeitgeist of the era, but is in keeping with the dreamlike feel. Suspend whatever attitude you may have with directors current status, and enjoy a fasinateing artefact from the past.

This was a cool movie. It almost seemed like a dream to me than a movie. It really doesn't warrant and X rating or even adult rating. I would say its a R rating at best. Sydne Rome was pretty much nude the entire movie, and she was stunningly beautiful back in 1972 so that was a definite plus in my book. Marcello Mastroianni thoroughly convinced me during the movie. I felt disgusted by him. From the bites on his legs to his pimp past, he did an awesome job acting in this movie. The entire time I was lost and laughing so the movie did its job. I was saying What? the entire time! Loved it! Because of this movie, I am compelled to watch more of Roman Polaski films. Oh and Hugh Griffith is in this movie too, so that deserves a star on its own!

A direct quote from Polanski "My wish was to make a film without costumes first of all, preferably without clothes at all. And without catapults and stage fights. MacBeth exhausted us all to such an extent that we were truly ready to change professions." What? For the most part is a throwaway sex comedy, a film to pick up the spirits at the time depleted director - An absurd Italian Sex farce for which in Italy at least was a success.It's no more than a series of vignettes with no real beginning, middle or end. Things just happen for no apparent reason and without any explanation. Nancy (Sydne Rome) after escaping a trio of inept rapists stumbles into a rambling coastal estate wearing little more than an napkin throughout.Certainly a misstep in Polanski's oeuvre but it's not without its moments of genuine humour and flashes of his trademark shots. Moments of wit in the script but most of the shortcomings are in the direction itself What? Indeed were they trying to say? A running time of 2 hours does test the patience, a film for completists mainly instantly forgettable, but maybe this is what was needed to recharge the batteries to make his next film "Chinatown".

Sydney Rome is an American traveling in Italy who flees to a private villa after being attacked by some really inept rapists. Within the estate she meets a bunch of crazy people, including former pimp Marcello Mastroianni in what has to be the craziest, most outlandishly go-for-broke performance of his career. Comparisons to Alice in Wonderland (always mentioned in conjunction with this film) are a huge stretch, I think. There's an innocent girl in a strange place surrounded by crazy people, but that's about the extent of the parallels. At best it's like Lewis Carroll reinterpreted by a horny high schooler who still giggles when he hears the word "breast." Nevertheless, for the first half hour or so I thought this was one of the funniest movies I had ever seen. Unfortunately it climaxed with Mastroianni crawling around in a tiger hide making meowing noises (whereupon Rome starts "taming" him with the whip). After that the film never really recovers the energy it started out with and viewers are left with little to do but wonder how Rome will be humiliated next (first her shirt is ripped, then stolen, then she walks around wearing a napkin until she finds another shirt, but then her pants are stolen, finally she loses the shirt, etc). I love unadulterated nonsense (SCHIZOPOLIS, FORBIDDEN ZONE, THE BED SITTING ROOM) but aside from a couple of choice moments this film's particular pointlessness was lazy and uninspired.