Stay As You Are

Nasstasja Kinski, at this point in her life, was one of the most beautiful women in the world. Her beauty and her sensuality made this movie very special. She plays Franscesca, a young college student who falls in love with a middle-aged architect played by Marcello Mastroianni. The story takes place in Rome. Julio (Mastroianni) leads a complicated life. We learn later on that he had dated Francesca's mother twenty years ago. Julio lost contact with her shortly after the break up.If you are a fan of Ms. Kinski, you simply must have this movie. I bought it on Amazon and watch it on my PS4. Highly recommended.

The film is one of those May-September love stories, about an unhappily-married older man (Marcello Mastroianni) smitten with a pre-Cat People Nastassja Kinski, who apparently was still in her teens when this movie was made. Supposedly controversial at the time, although the Clint Eastwood-directed Breezy with William Holden earlier in the decade had an even wider-age gap (and then there was Harold and Maude). Anyways, the Blu ray is terrible; if I had read the Blu-ray.com review before hand, I wouldn't have wasted money on it. This is clearly not transferred from a film element or a master used to make a commercial DVD, but from a VHS master, and not a very good one at that. Poor detail or sharpness, no depth or color. No effort at all to "master" this in any way suitable for Blu-ray--they didn't even try to DNR it to death. Just awful; you can't even "enjoy" the film because you are constantly aware that this is not what you paid for.

Multiple women are topless only. One has two topless scenes. Another has multiple topless scenes, a full frontal scene and one topless scene that lasts 5-10 minutes

i've only written this review to clarify the quality of the blu ray and the transfer of the film for other buyers. if you're looking for a "reference quality" blu-ray, this is not one. i've purchased this film twice in the early 2000s from folks who transferred it from other sources and sold bootlegs. sometimes it would be terrible, sometimes only bad. sometimes i'd get english soundtrack. sometimes italion. sometimes german. sometimes subtitles, sometimes not. subtitles were always in the transfer, nota seperate option. i ordered the german copy from europe. no english subs. this new blu-ray, is probably the best copy we'll ever get. choice of english and italian language. also seperate option of hearing the soundtrack only. nice quality on that for ennio morricone's music. as for the picture, not high resolution but certainly watchable. it's in a 16x9 format so it totally fills a modern screen... it also makes me suspect that the sides have been cut off slightly to allow for this. i can't swear to it, but in some other versions the image looks longer/ more wide screen [maybe 2.35/1 originally?]. to sum up: if you're a fan of this film, and have been frustrated with bad copies, wrong soundtracks, no subtitles over the years.... this is a great copy that puts it all together. blu ray image is good, not great... but the original elements likely don't exist for a better transfer. blu ray presentation - languages, subtitles, additional trailers, channel options, and optional soundtrack-only - is excellent. i'm very glad to have bought it and have a definitive copy.

It has more contents than the movie I watched long time ago.

Ena pelicula es muy buena, recomiendo

Just didn't so anything for me. There just wasn't the plot to hold me interest.

Nastassia Kinski with Marcello Mastroianni --- don't we all wish we could 'stay as we are?' Except with one of those great Italian twists --- love movie.