With a poll for the best films of 1969 coming up on ICM,I started looking for titles to view for the event. During this,I read a very good review from fellow IMDber Red-Barracuda about a Laura Antonelli movie. Finding Antonelli outstanding in Malizia and The Wifemistress,I decided to get the fur coat out.
View on the film:
Whipped by Gianfranco Reverberi's spidery Jazz score,director Massimo Dallamano & cinematographer Sergio "Don't Torture A Duckling" D'Offizi eye up top quality sleaze with lush stylisation of ruby reds and pristine whites giving a decadent atmosphere to the couple. While some of the more left-field choices interrupt the mood, ( a sex scene between two horses gives turns the erotica dead!)Dallamano makes most of them work by using them to peel the layers of Severin,from extended first-person shots handing out S&M punishment from Severin's view,and splintered flashbacks unveiling Severin's desire for humiliation.
Unfolding Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella for the jet-set Euro crowd, "Fabio Massimo" (likely a fake name-this is Fabio's lone credit) adaptation does extremely well at retaining the feeling of breaking taboos from Severin's and Wanda's relationship, with each new erotic act they partake in, (beginning from Wanda whipping Severin, to him requesting Wanda to sleep with other men so he can watch them)placing a weakness in the armour of their romance. Dominating proceedings, Laura Antonelli gives an outstanding performance as Wanda,that brims with an erotic sensuality,that Antonelli hooks with a restrained sorrow over the tears in their marriage. Chained up from all sides, Régis Vallée gives an excellent, expressive performance as Severin, which captures the arousal and the pain Severin receives from the venus in fur.
View on the film:
Whipped by Gianfranco Reverberi's spidery Jazz score,director Massimo Dallamano & cinematographer Sergio "Don't Torture A Duckling" D'Offizi eye up top quality sleaze with lush stylisation of ruby reds and pristine whites giving a decadent atmosphere to the couple. While some of the more left-field choices interrupt the mood, ( a sex scene between two horses gives turns the erotica dead!)Dallamano makes most of them work by using them to peel the layers of Severin,from extended first-person shots handing out S&M punishment from Severin's view,and splintered flashbacks unveiling Severin's desire for humiliation.
Unfolding Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's 1870 novella for the jet-set Euro crowd, "Fabio Massimo" (likely a fake name-this is Fabio's lone credit) adaptation does extremely well at retaining the feeling of breaking taboos from Severin's and Wanda's relationship, with each new erotic act they partake in, (beginning from Wanda whipping Severin, to him requesting Wanda to sleep with other men so he can watch them)placing a weakness in the armour of their romance. Dominating proceedings, Laura Antonelli gives an outstanding performance as Wanda,that brims with an erotic sensuality,that Antonelli hooks with a restrained sorrow over the tears in their marriage. Chained up from all sides, Régis Vallée gives an excellent, expressive performance as Severin, which captures the arousal and the pain Severin receives from the venus in fur.