Despite having heard of the genre for years, the only Nunsploitation I've seen is Uncle Jess's Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977-also reviewed.) Listing the DVD after getting it from CEX recently, I was surprised to see it sell straight away,leading to me rushing to make a pray to Flavia.
View on the film:
Panning up to nuns withering on the floor in ecstasy, director Gianfranco Mingozzi & cinematographer Alfio Contini reign down on Flavia's plight with long panning shots across the walls of her beliefs, going down to elegant tracking shots towards Flavia being forced to clasp her hands and join the masses.
Matching each shot of Nunsploitation sleaze pleasure with pain from the wince-inducting castration of a horse, Mingozzi takes care to frame the violence in terms of the iron-fist ruling from the male-dominated church, who from their façade of moral superiority inflict unrelenting torment upon Flavia.
Forced to bend the knee and enter the nunnery by her corrupt dad, the incredibly alluring Florinda Bolkan gives a saintly turn as Flavia, thanks to Bolkan capturing the complexities of Flavia surviving the torture and finding a inner feminist strength to push back against the vicious, self-appointed sinners.
View on the film:
Panning up to nuns withering on the floor in ecstasy, director Gianfranco Mingozzi & cinematographer Alfio Contini reign down on Flavia's plight with long panning shots across the walls of her beliefs, going down to elegant tracking shots towards Flavia being forced to clasp her hands and join the masses.
Matching each shot of Nunsploitation sleaze pleasure with pain from the wince-inducting castration of a horse, Mingozzi takes care to frame the violence in terms of the iron-fist ruling from the male-dominated church, who from their façade of moral superiority inflict unrelenting torment upon Flavia.
Forced to bend the knee and enter the nunnery by her corrupt dad, the incredibly alluring Florinda Bolkan gives a saintly turn as Flavia, thanks to Bolkan capturing the complexities of Flavia surviving the torture and finding a inner feminist strength to push back against the vicious, self-appointed sinners.