I Knew Her Well
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Year Released: 1965
Rating: 2.0
Hairdresser/usher/babysitter/model Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli), who skips around fancifully with a laundry list of men she briefly "associates" with, winds up in Rome and works in the movie making business, but she doesn't become an instant celebrity. The episodic nature works against it: scenes are disconnected from each other and there's no explanation for the gaps, which I guess was supposed to be hip at the time but it only makes the whole movie as flighty and frivolous as its main character. Pietrangeli's camera stares through Sandrelli's face the way Godard's did with Anna Karina - which is understandable, because she's gorgeous - but the movie's purpose is to essentially slut-shame Adriana and then punish her for her promiscuity. "You're the wisest of them all," the one professor (and lover) tells her ... surely he must be joking.