Seven Beauties (1975)

Giancarlo Giannini plays Pasqualino, a comic Italian anti-hero who has one talent and that's to seduce women, or so he believes being he's the only son of a family of eight.  He certainly isn't very good at being a murderer or a soldier, but it's as a seducer of women, and the seducing of one peculiar ugly female guard of a concentration camp, that might just save his life.   Lina Wertmuller writes and directs a film that stands out for telling a morbid tale in the most ironic and sardonic manner.  The main character is so despicable that on paper you'd think a horrible hero except for Giannini's portrayal and Wertmuller's odd yet insightful sensibilities.  Highly recommended. Grade: A-