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Un Bianco Vestito per Marialé

A White Dress for Marialé
Spirits of Death

Italy 1972
produced by
KMG Cinema
directed by Romano Scavolini
starring Ida Galli (as Evelyn Stewart), Luigi Pistilli, Ivan Rassimov, Pilar Velázquez, Edilio Kim, Ezio Marano, Shawn Robinson, Giancarlo Bonuglia, Gengher Gatti, Franco Calogero, Gianni Dei, Carla Mancini, Bruno Boschetti
written by Remigio Del Grosso, Giuseppe Mangione, music by Fiorenze Carpi, conducted by Bruno Nicolai

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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For a long time now, Marialé (Ida Galli) has been kept drugged and pretty much under lock and key by her husband Paolo (Luigi Pistilli) in their vast but decaying mansion, but somehow she has managed sending telegraphs out to all her friends inviting them to a masque - including her former lover Massimo (Ivan Rassimov). Reluctantly, Paolo gives in to her wish now that everyone's here anyways and plays the generous host. Problem is, not all of Marialé's friends get along, especially those who are in a relationship with one another, and so the first night is in equal parts a depraved party where everyone drinks a bit too much and at least some of the guests have something to be ashamed of the next morning, and a ground zero for tensions of all kinds - including jealousy of course.

... and then people start dying - of unnatural causes like stabwounds or dogbites of course. And of course the place's phonelines are cut through, and Osvaldo (Gengher Gatti), Paolo's servant who's sent to get the police, is killed.

Eventually, and after much to and fro, only three people are left alive, Marialé, Massimo and Paolo (no big surprise here), and Marialé has no real problem to convince Massimo Paolo's the killer. It all leads to a shoot-out between Paolo and Massimo, and Paolo shoots dead not only Massimo but also his own wife in the process - but only in self defense I might want to add.

Thing is Marialé herself was the baddie of the piece - when she was a little child, she saw her father shoot her mother and mom's lover, then he killed himself, and since then she suffered from some kind of trauma that eventually led her to create a very similar situation ...

 

Ok, on a plot level, this movie is probably worse, more over-constructed, confusing and confused than many other gialli (and that's a feat, given the genre's symtomatic disregard for logic) - and as with some of the best gialli, this is not too much of an issue here, because the film makes up in style what it lacks in narrative coherence, and manages to create its own aesthetic world, somehow more related to certain films of Alain Resnais or even Federico Fellini than any other gialli of its time.

That said though it's not a genre masterpiece nevertheless, on a narraitve level it just relies a bit too much on genre mainstays, it's a bit short on tension, and the ending shows a very naive understanding of Freud's writings at best and little more.

Masterpiece or not though, still well worth a look!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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