The Seduction of Mimi
Lina Wertmüller & Her Beauties
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1h 52m
Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 108 mins | 1972
The kind of potent cocktail of sex and politics only Wertmüller can concoct, The Seduction of Mimi stars Giancarlo Giannini as a laborer being wooed by both the unions and the mafioso while he runs back-and-forth between his hot-to-trot mistress and his (seemingly) ice-cold wife.
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