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How come this jewel is not included on any official list? So fun to watch! River Phoenix steals every scene he is on!

The bunch of ignorants that made this movie think that people in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) speak Italian... how come there wasn't any one in the production team who could point this out?

Terrible version, with an overacted Peter Sellers trying hard to be funny. Do yourself a favour and watch the 1952 version instead, with the fantastic Stewart Granger and diva Deborah Kerr.

The granny steals the show!

This version is almost as good as the book itself. Every single scene is brilliant. One of these films that I can watch again and again and still enjoy like the first time.

Three of the most important Spanish actresses/singers of the time collaborate -and compete- in this film about the (grim) life in Madrid of the 1950's, including every single cliché such as flamenco and bullfighting. Great songs, hairdressing and gowns make an ok script bearable.

So many things in this film don't make any sense at all... Maybe if it had been set in a period before Internet, email, Whatsapp, etc, then it would be a bit more believable... A young woman flies all the way to Sicily to spend some days with her boyfriend, but he's not there to meet her, so she "waits" for him for many days at his place keeping his mother company... And of course there's the elephant in the room that would have been impossible to keep from her in such a small Italian village where everybody knows everybody else... They say it's based on a play by Luigi Pirandello, I say that's rubbish. Only the main premise of a mother waiting for her son in Sicily is similar, the rest of the plot is completely different.