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1999 was an absurdly good year for movies. IMDb staff weigh in on the films in the "Class of '99," and how they hold up 25 years later.

The Films That Defined 1999

1999 was an absurdly good year for movies. IMDb staff weigh in on the films in the &quot;Class of &#39;99,&quot; and how they hold up 25 years later.

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Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, is dominated by a fierce as naive form of machismo and sees women only for what they can give him, both in terms of emotional and sexual satisfaction, and in terms of labor services and domestic labor. Therefore, he has a difficult relationship with his wife Marisa, his secretary/lover Claudia and his maid Teresa.

During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him how he solved the same problems. At Arturo's home, Enrico is astonished in seeing Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than a human because it doesn't need to sleep or feed. The only thing that puzzles Enrico is that the robot keeps calling Arturo by phone at regular intervals, as if to show concern like a human mate.

Returning home from the trip, Enrico has again arguments with Claudia, Teresa and Marisa: he ignores Claudia's complaints (she would have him leave his wife and be with her in the public), he disapproves of Marisa having a job and a social life, and demands that Teresa perform extra activities on her evening off.

Enrico resolves to break the relationship with the three women and to buy a Caterina robot for domestic duties, determined to live alone and not having to answer to anyone. At first, although spending is significant, everything seems to be going well, although Catherine shows strange (almost human) reactions and gives some strange sign of unrest during a visit from Marisa.

Enrico believes that he has solved all of his problems, and starts looking for a female companion that does not demand so much as his former ones. He invites home the young and beautiful Elisabetta, whom he met at Marisa's store. The girl becomes uneasy at the sight of Caterina (as Enrico's ex-wife had been), especially after the robot seems to reject her as it did with Marisa.

When Enrico and Elisabetta are about to spend the night together, Caterina loses control, plays havoc with the house and even tries to kill its master. Elisabetta panics, runs away and disappears from Enrico's life.

The intervention of the engineer who built the robot is of little help: Caterina, in fact, is such a sophisticated machine that it acquired almost total autonomy from its original setting. In front of the engineer it pretends to behave, in order not to be removed and replaced, but as soon as the technician goes away, she starts imposing conditions on Enrico: she will serve him devoutly and without complaining if he will give her the respect and dedication owed to a real woman.

So, when an American girl phones Enrico asking to be hosted at his home, the man vehemently answers no, in fear of a possible retaliation from the robot. The film ends with Enrico having dinner alone, duly served by Caterina in a room where she has closed all the doors like in a jail.

Edwige Fenech and Alberto Sordi in Io e Caterina (1980)

Once you see this movie you can&#39;t forget it. And you wanna see it again. The story is about a manager who is tired both with his wife and his lover. In a travel to America he has the opportunity to buy Caterina, a antropomorphe robot that looks and acts like a maid. Alberto is so fond of this robot that will bump his wife, his lover and even his southamerican maid. But slowly it will show the construction mistake in Caterina. It can feel love and she falls with Alberto. She gets jealous and menaces Alberto. He will be forced to live with his robot as his new wife witnessing that love goes beyond anything (a la Blade Runner in a certain sense) and it was himself the real problem in the relationships with the real women. This movie is great in plot and acting and it&#39;s also one of the best directing efforts of Alberto Sordi. His acting is above his average of end of 70&#39;s and the themes of the movie are well developed and presented with a mild taste and with lot of finesse. I really like this movie and it&#39;s bittersweet finale is very nice to see.

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Io e Caterina

This is a not bad movie. Alberto Sordi speak about the affair of the man with the cold machine. This is affectionate to Enrico (Sordi), but when a girl come in the house of this, Caterina (the machine) have a transformation, and destroyed all the flat! And Enrico understand this: the machine have a earth! And Caterina become a &quot;wife&quot; for this. A not bad story, and Alberto Sordi is a good actor in this movie.<br/><br/>Vote for the actor/actress: 5/6 (It&#39;s the max for this film!) Vote for the director: 6/7 (in some scenes this film is a thriller!) Final vote: 6 (good!)

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