Immorality (1978) ( L'Immoralita ) (Blu-Ray)

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Il DVD pubblicato nella collana Il Cinema Segreto Italiano per l'etichetta RaroVideo ha una durata dichiarata di 105 minuti. An odd attribute of the Italian DVD I watched is that some over-exposed shots jarred alongside the more naturalistic lighting within these same scenes, but I'm not sure whether this is a fault of the DVD transfer or if they were filmed that way to begin with. The filmmakers keep you in, er, suspense, for want of a better word, as there is only one scene in the movie that features any man-girl sex or child nudity.

Ferito a un braccio da un colpo di arma da fuoco, arriva nei pressi di un parco e qui viene soccorso da Simona, una dodicenne che abita in una villa con i genitori: il padre, paralitico, trascorre le giornate in completa solitudine circondato da collezioni di armi e orologi; la madre Vera, altrettanto insoddisfatta, si ritiene prigioniera del marito e cerca di attenuare i propri tormenti concedendosi ad altri uomini. Questions have to be asked about the mother's state of mind, that made her so willing to protect the stranger that brings danger to the people she is supposed to love. A child molester-killer who is on the run from the police, coops up with an extremely dysfunctional family consisting of a paraplegic and impotent father, sexually frustrated mother and their strange and sexually curious girl child.reprehensible, exploitative, just some under-age quite graphical sexual intercourse to make you shiver a bit (with disgust) among some phony dialogs out of grotesque characters.

While the central premise of a girl hiding and aiding a fugitive is reminiscent of WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (1961) and THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (1973), the action set-piece around the mid-point – where a band of villagers break into Ferrer's house with the intention of smoking the rapist out – is straight out of Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS (1971). Still the sex scene between the girl and the killer may certainly upset some viewers,albeit the girl is clearly replaced by an older body-double. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. La situazione precipita, anche perché i sospetti della polizia e dei "vigilanti" si stanno accentrando sulla villa.Scampato il pericolo, Vera, nel frattempo rientrata in casa, sale nella stanza del marito e, al termine di un confronto animato, gli rivela, in modo implicito, l'intenzione di farlo uccidere.

So if you like good drama with an original story (something hard to find these days) go for this one! she takes him to her house in a beautiful remote part of the countryside, and hides him in the basement. Lisa Gastoni (at 43) is still a sensual and attractive woman and has her hair dyed reddish blonde here, but this proved to be the last of several roles in a similar mode – to which I alluded above and of which I wouldn't mind catching Jerzy Kawalerowicz's MADDALENA (1971) and Giulio Petroni's LABBRE DI LURIDO BLU (1975); in fact, she went into a long period of retirement right after this one before re-emerging two years ago. The film begins with a scene that sees a man carrying the body of a dead girl before burying her, and then being pursued by a bunch of people with guns.Morando Morandini, zio dello sceneggiatore Morando Morandini Jr, ne sottolinea la noncuranza della logica narrativa e della verosimiglianza, definendo Massimo Pirri come un regista che “non fa film, ma li commette“. Il film è rimasto per molto tempo misconosciuto, anche per la mancata circolazione sui principali circuiti televisivi nazionali, fino a una recente riscoperta. There's not a real point to the film as such and it's more of a character study with the character's decisions providing the main points of interest. Credit has to go to director Massimo Pirri for keeping the film firmly in 'high class' territory - with a plot like this, it would have been easy for him to have ended up making a trash film. I keep writing in the hope that the number of words is enough to press submit and avoid we need more words turning up.