Woman Times Seven (Italian: Sette volte donna) is a 1967 sex comedy anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Leading a walking funeral procession behind the hearse containing her late husband's coffin, young widow Paulette slowly overcomes her grief when propositioned by her family doctor, the charming Jean.
Returning home from Italy a day earlier than planned, Maria Teresa is furious to find her husband Giorgio in bed with her best friend.
While her boyfriend, a flight attendant, is overseas, Linda invites both suitors back to her apartment, where she reads T. S. Eliot in the nude and presents a slideshow of artworks.
Parisian socialite Eve is appalled to learn that her rival Mme Lisière is wearing a replica of her new gown to the gala reopening of the Palais Garnier that night, even though it was supposed to be an exclusive design.
Feeling rejected by the world, two adulterous lovers, Marie and Fred, decide to commit suicide together in a shabby hotel room in Paris, dressed as a bride and groom for the wedding they will never have.
Woman Times Seven was the first of what was intended to be three films made by Joseph E. Levine, producer Arthur Cohn and Vittorio De Sica working together.
[5] Wardrobe was supplied by Pierre Cardin, jewelry by Van Cleef & Arpels, furs by Henri Stern and hairdressing by Louis Alexandre Raimon.
[6] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther harshly denounced the film: "For a man who has treated women as nicely as Vittorio De Sica has—as witness the several classic characters he has created with Sophia Loren—it is shocking and thoroughly bewildering to find him kicking them around as he does in his new picture ... Not one of the seven silly females whom Shirley MacLaine portrays in this series of seven blackout sketches provokes any feeling but disgust—or possibly embarrassment and pity—for the weaker (shall we say minded?)