I only discovered this one by accident when wondering what happened to actress Mara Maryl – turns out she only acted in films made by her husband Ernesto Gistaldi and she was more of a writer, so that answers that! Also, this seems to include a very early role for Joshua Sinclair, an interesting character who was a doctor in real life, worked with Mother Theresa, wrote the book Shaka Zulu, and most importantly went on to star in many a Enzo Castellari film!
This is a kind of proto-rape revenge film which is a genre that is not my thing at all, but this one seems to concentrate more personalities than anything else, on a beach. Mara Maryl plays a burned out, fed-up wife who is taken to a beach house by her ineffectual husband to bring the spark back to their marriage, which is clearly in trouble. Mara's having none of it, however, and her point is kind of proved by what happens next
Four bikers, rather than hippies, turn up and knock the husband around a bit before their leader takes Mara upstairs to rape her, which he seems to immediately regret doing, causing him to turn insular and ignore his mates. One other guy doesn't seem to want to get involved at all, while Sinclair's character does and the last guy just wants to watch. The husband makes the odd move to save his wife but doesn't make much of an effort, which is pointed out by Mara right away.
The whole film is a character study as to why these bikers live the way they live, and about their relationship with each other, and the same goes for Mara and her husband. There's some hilariously outdated conversation here, like "This is a bad scene, dad, getting some negative vibrations" but the subject matter is too realistic and dark to laugh at to be honest.
It's not a bad film, but not my scene, dad. Too negative. The version I watched was sourced from a VHS tape with Finnish subtitles.
This is a kind of proto-rape revenge film which is a genre that is not my thing at all, but this one seems to concentrate more personalities than anything else, on a beach. Mara Maryl plays a burned out, fed-up wife who is taken to a beach house by her ineffectual husband to bring the spark back to their marriage, which is clearly in trouble. Mara's having none of it, however, and her point is kind of proved by what happens next
Four bikers, rather than hippies, turn up and knock the husband around a bit before their leader takes Mara upstairs to rape her, which he seems to immediately regret doing, causing him to turn insular and ignore his mates. One other guy doesn't seem to want to get involved at all, while Sinclair's character does and the last guy just wants to watch. The husband makes the odd move to save his wife but doesn't make much of an effort, which is pointed out by Mara right away.
The whole film is a character study as to why these bikers live the way they live, and about their relationship with each other, and the same goes for Mara and her husband. There's some hilariously outdated conversation here, like "This is a bad scene, dad, getting some negative vibrations" but the subject matter is too realistic and dark to laugh at to be honest.
It's not a bad film, but not my scene, dad. Too negative. The version I watched was sourced from a VHS tape with Finnish subtitles.