' (released as ''Cheeky'' in English) is a

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directed by

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, with Yuliya Mayarchuk in the lead role. Certain parallelisms are drawn between ''

Nerosubianco ''Nerosubianco'', styled as ''nEROSubianco'' and also released with the international title ''Attraction'', is an Italian black comedy (part collage film) directed by Tinto Brass. The film deals with a variety of contemporary themes such as sexual ...

'' (1969), another Tinto Brass film set in

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. The Italian title is a play on the verbs (to transgress) and (to betray).

Plot

In London, the beautiful Venetian Carla Burin (Yuliya Mayarchuk) is an intern at the front desk of a hotel. She is looking for an apartment to allow her boyfriend Matteo (Jarno Berardi) to join her there. The real estate agent, Moira ( Francesca Nunzi), who is bisexual, rents her a loft with a view of the

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, with "intimate conditions." When the hot-tempered, jealous Matteo finds a nude picture of Carla and letters from her French ex-lover Bernard (Mauro Lorenz), Carla and Matteo have a row on the telephone. Angry at Matteo, Carla sleeps with Moira. Matteo, desperate, comes to London, where he finds Moira naked in Carla's apartment. He confronts Carla about all her past infidelities and refuses her offer to perform fellatio on him before leaving. After a walk in the park, where he observes much sexual activity, he changes his mind. Carla shows up with a written account of her infidelities, but Matteo declares he no longer needs to know.

Production

Yuliya Mayarchuk revealed that the two most difficult scenes for her were the one in which she has sex in a gondola (she had to put a fake penis inside her vagina and she started crying) and the infamous anal sex scene on a beach with Mauro Lorenz. "I didn't sleep the whole night before," Mayarchuk recalled.

Reception

In a retrospective review, ''

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'' described the film as a "corny soft-porn flick" and predominantly useful as "a chance to ogle plenty of pert bottoms, or 'windows to the soul' according to self-satisfied director Tinto Brass in the accompanying interview."

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