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I have loved Boccaccio '70 from the very first time I saw the film in the theater. Then it was only three films, not four. The additional fourth film, the first shown on this DVD is forgettable. Now in Blu-ray, the films are clearly superior visually and the sound is perfect. Not to spoil the storylines of the three mini-films, my favorite featured Anita Ekberg, who is an erotic image on a giant billboard in a enticing pose, drinking a glass of milk. Her image is abhorred by a very prudish older man who is a religious zealot. When she becomes real in his mind as a huge female and steps off the billboard to torment him, the movie becomes a comedy of laughs. Sophia Loren as carnival barker and lottery prize for a multitude of dirty old men is another comedy of sexual mayhem gone bawdy but again without being offensive. Loren is magnificent in her bawdy portrayal as an enticing lotter prize. Romy Schneider is a wealthy socialite, rich and without any employable experience, decides to join the working class, and her first client is her spoiled husband who must pay her to bed her, since she has endured his many affairs. What else is she experienced in anyway, but her band must now pay for services rendered. Directed by Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, this landmark anthology film is a showcase of glamour, sophistication, wit and sensuality, modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron These comic moral tales are an expose' about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960's Italy.