The first alternative film we discussed on the Life is Beautiful episode of Because You Watched
As irreverent and inflammatory as any Lina Wermüller piece, Seven Beauties actually manages to be a powerful indictment of fascist collaboration. As is usual for her, the director uses sexual dynamics of domination and submissiveness to exemplify political relations, except here the submissiveness isn't a quality of the victims (as it could have easily been), but of the state lapdogs.