Visconti's episode from the legendary anthology film Boccaccio '70, marketed at the time as “three stories of the sexes...somewhat daring, somewhat different, somewhat delicious.” Visconti's contribution stars Romy Schneider as a contessa who discovers that her decadent husband (Tomas Milian) has been consorting with high-priced prostitutes and decides to charge him a fee for all the free sex she has given him. Schneider is no barefoot contessa; whether in Chanel suit and pearls or bath towel, she radiates regal chic. As slight as The Job may seem, many Italian critics have argued it marks the last phase of the first half of Visconti's career.