LIBIDO
Italy 1965
D: Ernesto Gastaldi & Vittorio Salerno.
P: Ernesto Gastaldi & Vittorio Salerno for Nucleo
Film//Sc: Ernesto Gastaldi & Vittorio Salerno//DP: Romolo Garroni//E:
George Money//M: Carlo Rustichelli.
Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Mara Maryl(Maria Chianetta),
Dominique Boschero, Alan Collins.
As a boy
Christian sees his father murder his mistress. Twenty years later he takes his
new bride Helene back to where the murder took place. His lawyer Paul (Alan
Collins) and his wife Brigitte ( Mara Maryl) accompany them. Christian
(Giannini) becomes convinced that Paul is trying to drive him insane so that
he can take control of the inheritance. Too late, he discovers that actually
Helene (Dominique Boschero) and Brigitte are the ones attempting to make him
think he's insane.
Mara Maryl
could almost be considered a co-auteur of this film as she wrote the story the
film's based on and co-stars as Brigitte. Parts of this film turned up almost twenty years later in
Gastaldi's & Salerno's NOTTORNO
CON GRIDA. The footage was tinted and used in a completely different
context. Stylish direction by Gastaldi & Salerno makes one wish they had
done more work in that position, rather than concentrate on cranking out
screenplays. Giancarlo Giannini was still a decade away from finding fame with
Italian art-house fave director Lina Wertmuller, yet even here he hams it up
for the camera. The B&W cinematography certainly helps to maintain the
film's atmosphere of insanity.
Rustichelli's score is one of his better efforts with a special emphasis on
using an organ and saxaphone to create tension. The fact that only 4 people
appear in the film certainly indicates the low budget, however Gastaldi and
Salerno use the exteriors surrounding the gothic-like abode well to offset
this. With the financial failure of this film, it sent both co-directors back to the salt mines of screenplay writing which was a shame, based on the quality of the
presentation here. Salerno (whose brother was famous actor Enrico Maria Salerno) resurfaced 8 years later with a duo of excellent thriller/sleaze affairs: NO, THE CASE IS HAPPILY RESOLVED and SAVAGE 3.
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