Oscenità

Original title: Quando l'amore è oscenità

1980
1h 24m

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4.4/10

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Adult Drama

A group of people come up with provocative or downright nasty sexual scenarios like rape, bestiality, tree branch masturbation, candle masturbation, corncob masturbation, whipping, lesbian o... Read allA group of people come up with provocative or downright nasty sexual scenarios like rape, bestiality, tree branch masturbation, candle masturbation, corncob masturbation, whipping, lesbian orgies, toe masturbation, and bathtub assault.A group of people come up with provocative or downright nasty sexual scenarios like rape, bestiality, tree branch masturbation, candle masturbation, corncob masturbation, whipping, lesbian orgies, toe masturbation, and bathtub assault.

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IMDb RATING

4.4/10

228

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Trivia
This movie was supposed to be released in 1973, but the production company went bankrupt before the release. In 1975 it was banned by the Italian board of film review. In 1979 Renato Polselli re-cut and re-dubbed the movie, ostensibly to turn it into an allegory of female oppression. This new version was approved by the board the following year. An extended version with hardcore footage was released in adult movie theaters without the board authorization. After the release, the movie was also seized by the authorities for a few months.

Alternate versions
After the first cut was rejected by the Italian censorship, the movie was completely re-cut and re-dubbed, changing the whole narrative and dialogues. The new version also had a limited release with hardcore footage edited in. As a result, several different versions of the movie exist.

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3/10

So filthy, even the Italians banned it (for a while).

Renato Polselli's Oscenita is chock full of sex, depravity and perversion; if you want to see some messed-up filth, then this film well and truly ticks that box. Somehow, though, Polselli still manages to make his film incredibly boring, the director attempting to justify his on-screen deviancy with pseudo-intellectual feminist claptrap about how badly men treat women, when his film is ostensibly a catalogue of vile, demeaning acts perpetrated against the fairer sex in the name of entertainment.

Much of the film involves a group of people gathered around a dining table talking absolute b******ks, their dull, incomprehensible conversation intercut with the marginally more interesting (if you're a bit twisted) scenes of debauchery and obscenity. It starts with a spot of rape, followed by sadism, female masturbation (using trees, branches, candles, and a corn on the cob), hardcore sex, and some fun on the farmyard with Cicci the donkey and a woman with absolutely no self-esteem. The filth is kept fairly brief, allowing more time for pretentious waffle from the annoying party guests.

I managed to find a copy of the film with English subtitles, but I can assure you that, even with subs, the film makes very little sense and is barely worth a watch, even out of curiosity.