Review of What a Woman!

This is great Italian comedy at the peak of its screwball virtuosity, with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in their third film together with Charles Boyer for an extra touch. The conversation is furious all through like constant crossfire, seldom has so much been spoken in greater haste in only one hour and a half, which sees Sophia advance from an innocent aid to almost a top film star, just because the equally innocent and simple photographer Marcello Mastroianni happened to take a picture of her just passing by in a golden moment, which ended up as a magazine cover causing a sensation, with a long train of complications ahead, including court proceedings. Naturally the incorrigible girl hunter and count Charles Boyer gets interested and almost gives her his wife's fur coat, but you can't have everything. Marcello is after all more in her own age and has some advantage of his experience of intrigue as a journalist photographer. It's a delightful comedy but very superficial, there is no cinematography here, only bang on with flashing talk all through, but if you can follow you will be tremendously entertained.