lastliberal
The film starts off like an Italian Porky's: three boys checking out the girls bathroom where two well endowed girls are comparing breasts. It is one of the Italian sex comedies popular in the seventies.Franco (Alfredo Pea), the boy who got the best of his buddies is in danger of failing, and gets a private tutor (Edwige Fenech). Now, as a typical teen, he is delighted when he meets her.Giovanna (Fenech) doesn't arrive until late in the film, but she is the reason we are here. You cannot look at her long legs without excitement building up.Franco is desperate. He even pretends he is gay to get her to sleep with him. I'm not sure how that is supposed to work.He does manage to get a good look at her in the bathroom and cops a feel while she is sleeping, but, it isn't until he fakes a suicide that he finally achieves success.Great comedy and a welcome view of Fenech.
Michael_Elliott
School Teacher, The (1975) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Italian sex comedy has a nerdy virgin named Franco (Alfredo Pea) has so much sex on his mind that he begins to fail at school so his parents hire him a teacher (Edwige Fenech) to help but the sexy woman just makes it worse. His parents inform the teacher that he's gay, which the son decides to play along with in hopes that the teacher will try to "change" him. This was my first stab at this genre and if you were offended or found the American teen/sex movies to be dumb then you'd best stay far away from this thing. This movie is so incredibly over the top that I couldn't help but feel things were just too stupid for their own good. We have farts being set on fire, which is just the start of what happens. The film is far from a bad one but at the same time I really don't see too many people enjoying it. I think the biggest draw is going to be fans of the beauty Fenech who once again shows that she's too good for the material. She acts circles around everyone else in the cast and manages to turn in a very funny performance even though she's just shown as the piece of meat. Her beauty certainly can't be questioned and she has several nude scenes to show off even more. Pea is decent in his role but the character is just too annoying for us to really like. The comedy is very low brow and that includes many jokes about gay people, which certain groups will be offended by. The jokes are rather mean spirited as well and there's also jokes towards suicide and rape. The majority of the film has the student forcing himself on the teacher, which might not go over too well in America but if you don't take the film too serious and you're a fan of the star then just sit back and enjoy the movie for what it is.
christopher-underwood
To be honest, this barely holds together, but it does have Edwige Fenech and the tragedy is that not only is she obviously a massive visual attraction but she acts everyone else off the stage. Her subtle comic style and graceful movements are stand-out in an otherwise crudity. Vaguely related to our 'Confessions' films, Edwige made this after her glorious giallo and a couple of 'Canterbury Tale' spin-offs for husband, Sergio Martino. Ignoring the appalling over acting of most of the 'too old' school kids etc, there are interesting elements. Even in this silly little story, we know that the school finances are fiddled, that state housing is available on a 'what will you do for me' basis and gays are good for a laugh. Further, the mafia is more than hinted at and the male lead is encouraged to play gay 'women love the sensitive bit', in order to get near enough to grab, drug and almost rape. And all so that the man may turn out to be 'normal'. sounds like any other Italian movie when I think of it!
pumaye
With this movie the gorgeous brunette Edwige Fenech - here at thetop of her physical charme - passes from the Giallo movies thatstarted her career between the late Sixties and early Seventies -several of whom are indeed very good and worth seeing - to thecheap erotic pharce that delineate the better part of her careerbefore her retiring from the scenes and the start of a very fortunateproducing career - she has always been a bright and corageouswoman in her choices. This movie starts a franchise, made of a few movies with thesame title character, but not necessarily real follows up to theones before. Edwige is the wife of a gymnastic professor(D'Angelo) that becomes involved in a torrid love passion with ayoung student. Better forgive her for such performances: she has been better
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