Ovid is an extraordinary poet and a gifted storyteller. To him the young and beautiful Claudia and Cornelius turn for advice on love. And he, the narrator, speaks to the two young people and to those who will listen to him, about seduction and conquest, pleasure and affection, teachings that transcend all epochs and social conditions…
“Borowczyk instead skilfully depicts motifs linked to female voyeurism reshaped on male models (the mythical transformism of Proteus, Pasiphae and the bull, Leda and the swan) and culminating in the invocations and offers to Priapus (…). The references to the vascular paintings and frescoes of the time are not exorbitant, succeeding in conveying the idea of the mythical personification linked to the metamorphoses of eroticism.”
Mario Calderale
Source
Genre drama erotic
Cast
Marina Pierro: wife of Macarius / Claudine Cartier
Massimo Girotti: Publius Ovidius Naso
Laura Betti: Clio, mother of Macarius
Milena Vukotic: Modestina
Philippe Lemaire: General Laurentius
Philippe Taccini: Cornelius
Antonio Orlando: Rufus
Mireille Pame: slave girl Sepora
Soundtrack Luis Bacalov
