Vizio e provocazione (1995)

Vizio e provocazione (1995). 1h 20m

“In between his innumerable hardcore porn assignments in 1995, Joe Du0026#39;Amato took time out to film this abysmal soft-core quickie, which plays like an amateur, would-be hack imitation of Tinto Brass. Du0026#39;Amato was to ripoff Tinto explicitly in an unauthorized remake of his classic u0026quot;Paprikau0026quot;, but this attempt to cash in on the erotic auteuru0026#39;s subject matter is embarrassing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTintou0026#39;s masterpiece u0026quot;Mirandau0026quot;, which made Serena Grandi an iconic Italian star for the ages, is evidently the inspiration for this nonsense. It features just five players, all stereotypical characters in a mix u0026amp; match humpfest (softly, of course) that heads nowhere.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eCarlo is the dunderheaded proprietor of a rural tavern, whose pretty/plain wife Amelia is cool to his horny advances. Sure they hump, but she doesnu0026#39;t enjoy it, tries hard to avoid it, and is even tearful during one passive bed clinch.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTheir cousin, a pretty redhead named Marilinda, comes to stay with them and work as a waitress. Also related in this pseudo-incest picture is a retarded young man Gianni, whose Peeping Tom habits from a crawlspace vantage point are repetitively shown by Du0026#39;Amato, down to using and reusing over u0026amp; over a close-up loop of the boyu0026#39;s steps ascending the stairs -clueing in the viewer that some voyeurism is afoot again.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFifth character is a construction man Mr. Orlando, who gets the hots, naturally, for both ladies. Sex scenes mixing the five of them two by two are mechanical and soft-R, with u0026quot;woman masturbating before her mirroru0026quot; footage thrown in to complete the fake-erotic content.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLater reels are so badly directed I was surprised, even after watching nearly 100 of Du0026#39;Amatou0026#39;s movies and videos. Continuity is shot to hell in a key scene where Carlo is informed by Gianni that his wife is in the barn having sex with Mr. Orlando. The husband grabs a rifle and rushes there, with the seemingly endless (poor editing) sex scene ongoing, yet arrives way too late to catch them. Instead of the expected climax and violence we are led to expect, instead we see the married couple yelling at each other, and sheu0026#39;s packed her bags and run off with Mr. Orlando.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNone of this makes any sense on screen, but what follows plays as if the production ran out of money and key interstitial scenes were blue pencilled from the shooting script. (Or more likely, now that the sex quotient of the show had been fulfilled, the filmmakers or perhaps future re-editors simply wanted to wrap up the package.)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWe see the young Mirenad in a wedding dress while Carlo is getting drunk, muttering about his new bride. The retard gets to hump her but just as they are starting to go at it, the movie suddenly ends. We are left with a serial cuckold and certainly a wasted hour and a half of viewing time. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eCast is unexceptional, both from acting and sex simulating vantage points. And despite the old car and u0026#39;30s era costuming, Du0026#39;Amato fails to approach in any way the talent that good old Tinto has displayed and been rewarded for, if not by critics certainly by substantial Italian audiences going to his movies.”