Stay As You Are (1978)

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

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.

eroticpoignantmelancholicslow-burnromanticunevenemotionalbittersweet

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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