Devil in the Flesh (1986)
Directed by Marco Bellocchio
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
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What critics compared Devil in the Flesh to
Romance isn't quite as hardcore as all that, but it is significantly more explicit than the more recent Italian sexual cause celebre, Devil in the Flesh (1987) -- which notoriously featured a brief, dark scene where Maruchka Detmers gave Federico Pitzalis a half-hearted blow job on camera.
(Maruschka Detmers is the only other candidate who comes to mind, but Romance makes even Devil in the Flesh look tame.)
Italian cinema has come a long way from Marco Bellocchio’s Devil in the Flesh (1986), in which a couple engaging in graphic sex discuss the Bolshevik Revolution, to Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love, in which a couple engaging in graphic sex discuss how to make fish soup.