English title: The White Sheik
An Italian couple in Rome for their honeymoon gets separated when the wife sneaks out to search for her idol, an actor in soap opera photo strips. At the studio where that actor works, she is deceived into boarding a truck which then leaves for a location shooting. When the husband's relatives arrive for a family lunch, he has to make phony excuses for the wife's absence.
Though featuring a few noteworthy individual sequences -- the initial street sequences in Rome and the photo shoot mainly sticking in my memory -- the script's weaknesses are apparent by around midfilm and make for a rather unexciting second half. The characters are very one-dimensional and convey a stereotypical depiction of the lower middle class. Although far from unwatchable, it's safe to say that, hadn't this film's director and co-writer achieved superstar status among filmmakers through his subsequent films, this film would probably be forgotten today.
Rating: 48
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