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The Frightened Woman
The Laughing Woman / Gioco d'Amore, Gioco di Morte

Italy 1969
produced by
Giuseppe Zaccariello for Cemo Films
directed by Piero Schivazappa
starring Philippe Leroy, Dagmar Lassander, Lorenza Guerrieri, Varo Soleri, Maria Cumani Quasimodo, Mirella Pamphili
written by Piero Schivazappa, Paolo Levi, Giuseppe Zaccariello, music by Stelvio Cipriani, production design by Francesco Cuppini, special effects by Carlo Rambaldi

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Feminist Maria (Dagmar Lassander) makes the mistake to visit her macho boss Doctor Sayer (Philippe Leroy) one weekend to pick up some documents, as she soon enough finds herself trapped in his mansion and a subject to his mercy ... and he has decided to torture her, put her in bondage, strip her and degrade her, and he promises to finally rape and kill her, as he has done with so many other girls before - and to prove his point, Sayer shows Maria a collection of photographs of his past victims. And for the most time everything goes as planned for Sayer, as he has scared Maria witless and made her his slave.

Then though, he goes one step too far and almost kills Maria ... and all of a sudden, with the girl dieing, his facade crumbles, and he does everything to save her, and once she's out of harm's reach does everything to comfort her ... and all of a sudden, the two fall in love with each other and even start a healthy relationship - and Sayer admits in the process that he has never killed anybody, and his pictures of dead women were just prostitutes covered in fake blood.

Everything seems nice and beautiful now until ... Sayer dies in Maria's arms, as she has handed him an overdose of his heart medication. Turns out that Maria has planned the whole thing right from the beginning, she has even paid a prostitute (Lorenza Guerrieri) to find out everything about Sayer, and to cancel a meeting with him on the day he ultimately took Maria captive - and it looks like Maria wants to continue this game with more sadists in the future.

 

Not at all uninteresting film on BDSM relationships that unfortunately falls into two halves: The first half is fascinating, being at once deeply rooted in BDSM-philosophy and being extremely stylish. It is pretty much a combination of pseudo-futuristic 60's style sets and well-composed images on one side and torture, degradation and tension on the other, things that work surprisingly well together in this film. In the second half however, when Sayer and Maria become a conventional couple, the film pretty much runs out of steam, the tension is totally gone and the little sexual games the two lovers play are pretty much run-of-the-mill. Plus, the images revert from extremely stylish tol rather ordinary. The twist ending though saves the film, at least to a point.

Basically, the film is totally watchable (especially if you are into BDSM-stories) but falls several feet short of the masterpiece it could have been.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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