1977 Italy: two Catholic schoolgirls learn sin tastes like communion wine.
In the Catholic and traditionalist Italy, two teenagers covertly discover new prohibited games.
Acting
Fani's Nenè weaponizes fragility like a switchblade. You can't look away.
Cinematography
Sweaty Mediterranean light that makes sin look like salvation.
Director
Salvatore Samperi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nenè arrived during Italy's commedia sexy all'italiana boom, but Samperi pushed past titillation into genuine discomfort — the film was denounced by family associations and barely distributed outside arthouses.
Leonora Fani was 16 during filming; the production required her mother's on-set presence, yet the final cut still shocked censors. She retired from acting within five years, citing industry exploitation.
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