Synopsis
The Girl with a Pistol (La ragazza con la pistola, 1968) is Mario Monicelli's Italian comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Assunta, a young Sicilian woman, is seduced and abandoned by the mustachioed charmer Vincenzo. Her village honour code demands blood. With no brothers to do the killing, she packs a single pistol and sets off after him herself.
The trail runs from sun-baked Sicily to grey, rainy London. And there something unexpected happens to Assunta: the strange city, its loose manners and unfamiliar faces slowly loosen her grip on revenge. What began as a blood feud turns into the story of a woman who, for the first time, belongs to herself. Monica Vitti leads, with Stanley Baker and Corin Redgrave alongside her.
Monicelli was a founding voice of commedia all'italiana, and here he aims his wit at the archaic machinery of patriarchal honour without ever flattening his heroine into a joke. The film made the shortlist for the foreign-language Oscar, and Vitti plays it so finely that the comedy quietly becomes a coming-of-age portrait. Stream The Girl with a Pistol (1968) online on iFILM.
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