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The Flesh
🎬 Movie

The Flesh

1991 · 90 min Drama Romance
⭐ 5.5 / 10 · TMDB

A piano player meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism. After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

This is quietly operating cinema. No big events, no crisis turns — just people and how they live through what happens to them.

Strengths: atmosphere, actors, accuracy of detail. Weaknesses: the pace isn't for everyone, the ending may feel unresolved.

For people who watch films for feeling, not entertainment.

Director: Marco Ferreri

— MovieFinder Editorial

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Viewing atmosphere: An evening when your mind is at peace. With someone you can sit in silence with after. Wine or tea.

🎭 Cast

Sergio Castellitto

Sergio Castellitto

Paolo

Francesca Dellera

Francesca Dellera

Francesca

Philippe Léotard

Philippe Léotard

Nicola

Farid Chopel

Farid Chopel

Aldo

Petra Reinhardt

Petra Reinhardt

Giovanna

Gudrun Gundlach

Gudrun Gundlach

Nursing woman on the beach

Nicoletta Boris

Nicoletta Boris

Owner of the Bar

Alessandro De Santis

Alessandro De Santis

Son of the owner of the bar

Eleonora Cecere

Eleonora Cecere

Daughter of Paolo

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Massimo Bucchi

Priest

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