Underplayed Gems

Stay As You Are (1978)

Stay As You Are poster
Original title
Così come sei
Directed by
Alberto Lattuada
Genre
drama film, erotic film, romance film
Country
France, Italy, Spain
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 55 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A middle-aged architect returns to Italy for work and meets a young college student. They begin a passionate affair that challenges his unhappy marriage.

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What happens

Stay as You Are (Italian: Così come sei), also known as Stay the Way You Are, is a 1978 erotic drama film, directed by Alberto Lattuada, starring Nastassja Kinski, Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara De Rossi, and Ania Pieroni. An Italian–Spanish co-production, it follows the May–December romance between a vivacious young college student and a middle-aged professional who is unhappy in his marriage. New Line Cinema gave the film a limited theatrical release in the United States on 21 December 1979. The film was released by Cult Epics in May 2015 on DVD and Blu-ray. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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