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Guerrino (Renato Pozzetto) is a premature widower that owns a grape farmland and elaborates his own brand of wine. But his life is incomplete. He was very fond of his late wife and now he continues living under the leash of his ex mother in law, even they share the conjugal bed to the scorn of his town friends. A very kinky situation. But in a trip to Milan all that way of life goes to pieces. In front of the emblematic Duomo, he sees a beautiful girl, dressed in a traditional wedding gown, doing a photo session because she, evidently, works as a model. Guerrino can't help to hear the siren call of that girl (Ornella Muti), a haunting vision born in a romantic fairy tale, and without thinking, he follows her to the hotel where she is living. But he notes that something is wrong with her. She is very sad, drinking alone in a table and he seeks courage to talk to her, also making a libation of his own. Due to the fogginess caused for the booze, both characters, end up in the same hotel room and Guerrino by mistake, drinks a great dose of barbiturate that Chantal (the name of the model) has prepared to commit suicide. He winds up in a hospital and she falls in love with her savior. All is romantic and perfect. Guerrino doesn't want to believe in his luck. His gorgeous new wife is the envy and the coveted object of his old buddies. His ex mother in law is resentful and rambles around the mansion peeping through keyholes and putting her ears against the walls with the hope of finding a crack in the matrimonial bliss of Guerrino and Chantal. All goes well until some fateful day an strange woman with a kid are visiting an embarrassed Chantal. The woman brings with her a trunk, apparently with personal effects of the, now very annoyed Chantal. The trunk is a veritable Pandora Box. Once opened, a shocking revelation will put to the test the love of the starring couple. Renato Pozzetto has a very personal style of humor. Someone says it is surreal. He is absurdly serious. He confronts the ridicule and the absurd with enormous dignity. He has a good manly voice and a prosperous tummy. He is a great Italian character very popular in the cinema of late 1970s, 1980s and beyond. In front of him, in this movie, he has Ornella Muti. It's true what the title says: Nobody is Perfect. But Ornella is better than perfect. Her features have made her an icon of beauty because she is a natural cinema actress. She is not a simple model in a magazine. A beautiful and lifeless image. She is vibrant, magnetic, charming and intense. All in all this is a very interesting picture, with sense of humor (Pozzetto Style) and a message against the intolerance. The film boasts a catchy musical score at charge of Riz Ortolani and a very precise direction in the hands of Pasquale Festa Campanile who was a very experienced and gifted man. For example, he co-wrote the script of the legendary film "Il Gattopardo aka The Leopard" (1963) and also penned the novel "La Ragazza Di Trieste" upon which is based the movie with the same title (1982) starring Ben Gazzara and Ornella Muti and directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile himself.