Serena Grandi shows up too as Lola’s mother, housewife and model for her husband’s obsessive photography and study of female bottoms. Excellent use of music. Lola even has her own theme song that, for good or ill, will stick in your head for days. Ammirati is eerily good as a frivolous girl on the verge of being a rural south Italian woman. She already has the sharp contemptuous vocal tone of a lifelong scold, and is barreling right into matrimony and family, not 5 years at a liberal arts college somewhere. Her sexual exploration is more about defining her place in nature than defining herself socially, and her eventual epiphany is expressed through a simple and profound union-with-nature metaphor.

I have annoyed Brass purists in the past by saying this is his most successful film. Many of his earlier works are more intellectually or artistically satisfying, but MONELLA is a perfect sexy entertainment and perfection in anything is so rare that I place perfect entertainment as a notch above flawed art.

Here, for the first time outside of Italy, and with Subtitles, is the uncut masterwork of erotica at its most humorous. Long renowned for his work in documentaries and the avant-garde, director Tinto Brass is now famous as the world's premier erotic filmmaker, turning out movies that have bridged the gender gap, earning at least as many ardent female admirers as male fans. Frivolous Lola is perhaps his most likeable film yet."