Thank You, Aunt

A fresh perspective on disaffected youth in the nuclear era, this first film directed by the 24-year-old Samperi is a story of social and sexual frustration, rich in political allegory. Seventeen-year-old Castel--who, unlike many of his contemporaries, is neither a conformist striver nor a destructive radical--has come to terms with life temporarily by retreating behind psychosomatically induced paralysis. Confined to an electric wheelchair, this scion of affluence works cruel mind games on those nearest him. His parents travel, leaving him in the care of his youthful doctor aunt, Gastoni, on her country estate. The clever cripple deliberately alienates her many vi...