La luna (1979)

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

From memory: A movie, just as sleazy as its plot line suggests, gets an artsy treatment, so there a few good set pieces, but generally it's quite a disappointment.

Halliwell (no star): "Interminable catalogue of events few people wanted to experience; the kindest description would be 'pretentious claptrap'."

Maltin***: "Initially dazzling tale......becomes ponderous when it turns into a mother-son soap opera with incestuous implications. Cinematically exciting, though, with a bravura finale."

Poveri milionari (1959)

A young man has an accident that makes him lose his memory and becomes director of the department store where his brother-in-law works.

Fairly amusing, old-fashioned Italian screwball comedy, lively, but not quite memorable.

Belle ma povere