This highly symbolic and enigmatic political drama by Hungarian director Miklos Jancso was produced by a consortium from Italy, France and West Germany. This film is considered to be an homage to Antonioni as it uses his favorite leading actress (Monica Vitti) and his cameraman Carlo di Palma. This film was made at a time when Jancso was not allowed to make films in his native Hungary. While covering an Italian political protest, a journalist played by Vitti, finds herself surrounded by a group of young men who jostle her, remove her recording equipment and set fire to her car. She goes to the police but when they bring one of the assailants before her to identify, she lies and says that he is not one of the attackers. This leads to her having a romantic relationship with this mysterious young man-- an Italian neo-fascist who has been given the job of assassinating a leftist.

获奖：2005年意大利电影新闻记者协会银丝带奖提名最佳摄影
2004年戛纳电影节导演双周单元
介绍：卡罗和希尔维娅结婚20年了。卡罗有个年轻的情妇，跟她在同居；而妻子希尔维娅则住在罗马的家中，卡罗只是偶尔经过。夫妻两人间有种强烈的爱怜和深刻的理解，但当希尔维娅也给自己找来个年轻暴力的小情人时，两夫妻的关系到了最紧急的关头。这意味着一场情欲角力赛即将展开。影片片名来自作家offredo Parise的同名小说。

1969 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini