by Hal Erickson
synopsis
A situation that once (believe it or not) served as the premise for a Dick Van Dyke Show is taken several steps farther in the Italian Nudo di Donna. Nino Manfredi plays a prudish husband who is appalled to discover that his wife once posed nude for a painting. His shock is intensified when word gets around that the artist's model was a prostitute. The rest of the film consists of Manfredi's hilariously frantic efforts to get to the bottom of things (as it were). Nude di Donna was released in the US with the cumbersome title Portrait of a Woman, Nude.
characteristics
- Scam
- Romantic
- Romance
- Portrait
- Search
- Seduction
- Truth
- Swindle
- Shock
- Seductress
- Betrayal
- Photograph
- Husband
- Con/scam
- Con-game
