The film brought her a David di Donatello, the Italian equivalent of an Oscar. The film was a huge box-office success and continues to enjoy cult status, in part thanks to the cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (an Oscar-winner for his work on Apocalypse Now), which captured her spellbinding beauty. She played a subservient maid, supinely cleaning book shelves while the whole nation peered underneath her skirt. It was with Malizia that Antonelli entered the upper echelons of the Italian film industry, but it was the beginning of a gradual decline. In the 1970s she had been one of the brightest and most divine figures of Italian sex comedies, her name forever associated with Salvatore Samperi’s film Malizia (Malicious, 1973). Laura Antonelli was 73, and had spent much time alone and unhappy, tangled in problems of a decidedly unglamorous nature. Her maid found her dead following a stroke, alone in her apartment at the gates of Rome, after a life of both scorching success and torment.
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