As an italian I always loved this movie very much that was shot the year I was born.
Like all of Monnicelli's films it's a fierce and biting satire of italian society despite the fact the film takes place enterely in UK. We are in the 1968 the years of the sexual revolution and feminist struglles. The director through comedy ,highligts the difference of a modern country like Great Britain and a conservative, catholic retrograde country like Italy, represented by Assunta and his blind desire to avenge the lost honor. It is actually a deeply feminist movie, that shows the evolution of a woman that, little by little becomes aware that she can be more that just a wife or a woman anchored in the absurd archetypes of the past. I can understand that for modern viewers, especially english speaking, the movie can be a bit silly or naive, but as always in the best italian comedy, the director though parody and laughter, points his fingers at the absurdities of a retrograde society that has not understood that everything is already changed. Last but not least Monica Vitti's beaty and skill take your breath away.
Review of The Girl with a Pistol
