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The Sunday Woman (Italian: La donna della domenica) is a 1975 Italian thriller film directed by Luigi Comencini. It is based on the novel of the same name by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.
Apr 14, 1976 · The Sunday Woman: Directed by Luigi Comencini. With Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Aldo Reggiani. The investigation of the murder of ambiguous architect Garrone takes Police Commissioner Santamaria to the Turinese high society, but the results are unclear.
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- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Luigi Comencini
- 1976-04-14
The Sunday Woman 1975 1h 45m Mystery & Thriller Drama List Reviews A police chief investigates the murder of an architect, and the prime suspect is a socialite named Anna Carla.
- Luigi Comencini
- Mystery & Thriller, Drama
- Marcello Mastroianni
The Sunday Woman (Italian: La donna della domenica) is a crime novel by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. It was subsequently translated into English by William Weaver in 1973.
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Radiance offers a lustrous 2K restoration of The Sunday Womanavailable in both full frame (mandated by the producers for TV broadcast) and 1.85:1 widescreen formats. Needless to say, the widescreen image looks more cinematic, so that’s probably the way to go, but it’s always nice to have options. Overall the image boasts some decent depth and clari...
The bonus materials included by Radiance are few but choice. A new interview with Italian cinema expert Richard Dyer delves into the source novel, the script’s light touch, and how the film handles themes of sex and class. An archival interview from 2008 with cinematographer Luciano Tovoli covers how he became a DP, working on The Sunday Woman afte...
Absorbing and often amusing, Luigi Comencini’s genre-blending The Sunday Womanreceives a sparkling new transfer and several choice extras from Radiance Films.
The Sunday Woman takes a comic approach to the police procedural, with cop Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni) discovering the pretensions and eccentricities of wealthy Turin society as he and his colleagues investigate the murder of Garrone (Claudio Gora), a creep who deserves what happened to him.
The Sunday Woman. 1975 · 1 hr 50 min. R. Crime · Mystery · Thriller · Foreign/International. When Garrone, an odious architect, is beaten to death, a high society wife and her gay friend become the key suspects in the investigation. Starring: Jacqueline Bisset Marcello Mastroianni Jean-Louis Trintignant Aldo Reggiani Maria Teresa Albani.
