i be not go to pretend that this be classic fellini and or a masterpiece of italian or european art house cinema and but . there a lot go on in this movie that reward a lengthy attention span . mastroiani play the archetypal middle age menopausal misogynist and the old swinger in town and call woman everything but woman . sow and mare and bitch and etc . fellini effortlessly set him up for a long slow surreal fall from grace and deconstruct his fear of woman in the process . it a temporal culture clash and a stiff monochrome macho sexism meet technicolour badass feminism head on . there a few of fellini sublime production game go on in the background and most notably the orgasm orchestra that build from the sono portrait of marcello past lover . the symbolism on display throughout be typically oblique and but it effortlessly play for laugh in a way that few of his early film manage . i have see most of fellini output and from la strada to ginger and fred and and for me this movie stand out along with those two a an accessible entry point into the satirical world view of one of italy most interesting director . it certainly not a masterpiece and but it definitely a wry look at the sexual more of the day . and the cinematography ain not bad either .