Lady L

Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While working as a laundress, Lady L falls for the gambler and anarchist Armand (Paul Newman), who gets mixed up with an inept group trying to assassinate the senile Prince Otto ...more

Lady L wants to be an anarchical comedy, a satire that lobs bombs at all sorts of conventions and classes -- but unfortunately, director/writer Peter Ustinov forgot to light the fuse. The film starts out well (once one gets past Sophia Loren's inability to pass as an 80-year-old woman), but it never delivers on its early promise, and it never seems to settle on what it wants to say or what its targets will be. It does have a twisted sense of humor which pokes its head through every so often, but ...more