You can say what you want about Joe D'Amato's movies, but the guy knew a very important fact: if you get someone as talented as Enzo Sciotti to paint the poster to your film, people will want to see it.
That said, this is the kind of D'Amato movie that fascinates me, as it stars Tara Buckman, an actress who has obsessed me since Night Killer, in a movie that's at once closer to reality than that movie and also still so far away from the world that you and I live in.
Shot in Virginia - I assume right around when the aforementioned Mattei movie was made - Buckman plays Angie, a cabaret singer who steals the heart of Raymond Derek, a rich man with political aspirations, a gorgeous wife and a path toward the upper one percent. Their love takes it all away, yet when she fights for him, he reacts in the most pompous and entitled way possible. Truly, she is too good for him, even if she's the traditional bad girl.
Look, this is a movie so confident of its sexiness that Laura Gemser shows up and keeps her clothes on. And also one so in love with its theme song that Buckman sings it four times.
I kind of love that you expect Buckman's character to just be someone out to get the money out of our lead protagonist, but she's better than everyone else in this movie put together, willing to use her body to keep her man going, selling every bit of herself and still remaining strong and whole in a world where everyone else is a compromised individual.
Yeah, alright, I get a lot out of Joe D'Amato movies. Perhaps more than you do. You may just watch this and laugh and say, "What a piece of junk." I invite you to see the world through more positive eyes, a place where a softcore movie by a jaded porn-making hack can teach you a lesson in life.
That said, this is the kind of D'Amato movie that fascinates me, as it stars Tara Buckman, an actress who has obsessed me since Night Killer, in a movie that's at once closer to reality than that movie and also still so far away from the world that you and I live in.
Shot in Virginia - I assume right around when the aforementioned Mattei movie was made - Buckman plays Angie, a cabaret singer who steals the heart of Raymond Derek, a rich man with political aspirations, a gorgeous wife and a path toward the upper one percent. Their love takes it all away, yet when she fights for him, he reacts in the most pompous and entitled way possible. Truly, she is too good for him, even if she's the traditional bad girl.
Look, this is a movie so confident of its sexiness that Laura Gemser shows up and keeps her clothes on. And also one so in love with its theme song that Buckman sings it four times.
I kind of love that you expect Buckman's character to just be someone out to get the money out of our lead protagonist, but she's better than everyone else in this movie put together, willing to use her body to keep her man going, selling every bit of herself and still remaining strong and whole in a world where everyone else is a compromised individual.
Yeah, alright, I get a lot out of Joe D'Amato movies. Perhaps more than you do. You may just watch this and laugh and say, "What a piece of junk." I invite you to see the world through more positive eyes, a place where a softcore movie by a jaded porn-making hack can teach you a lesson in life.