Crazy Desire

Antonio is in his forties, comfortable, married. He stops to help a group of young people whose car has broken down and ends up spending the day with all of them. One of them, Francesca, very young, takes hold of him completely. As the group moves from beach to beach and party to party he keeps following, unable to work out whether she takes him seriously at all. Luciano Salce's film is at once about the generation gap in sixties Italy, the economic miracle, and the ridiculousness of middle age. Ugo Tognazzi and Catherine Spaak star. It handles material that would be uncomfortable now in the language of its own period.