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Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods
Style and seduction, with an interesting interlocking narration, the
excellent cinematography by Romano Scavolini and an equally excellent
soundtrack by Giancarlo Chiaramello.
Sauro Scavolini directing with a huge effort and passion that covers the obvious small budget available.
He also has a lot of courage, because in a period of Italian thriller,
he slowly takes another path: the psychological and morbid thriller,
the drama veined with eroticism.
A courageous choice, which however creates a story that does not leave
the viewer glued to the screen waiting for the plot twist, indeed, in
all the central part, a bit of boredom emerges, fortunately
counterbalanced by a final again convincing as the beginning. However
is too late.
Story development and writing defects aside "Amore e morte nel giardino
degli dei" is a pleasant movie with a few original touches. A film that
is saved thanks to the style and interpretation of some (not all, to be
honest) protagonists. Erika Blanc the seductive protagonist, in
addition to creating a beautiful character, delights the viewers with
good erotic visions, alongside the tormented character of Peter Lee
Lawrence and the equally beautiful and often sexy Orchidea De Santis.
Rosario Borrelli in the role of the protagonist's husband, raises some
doubts, as well as an ornithologist played by Franz Von Treuberg, who
would be the detective in charge if this had been a giallo, instead he
limits himself to being a strange narrator or the one who holds the
story. And this, accentuates boredom.
We are in a large villa with park, rented by a German ornithologist,
who during one of his study walks, finds some tapes in the property.
Intrigued, the man inserts them into his tape recorder, learning about
the drama that has taken place in the villa. The tapes are recordings
of psychoanalysis sessions in which the turbid relationship between
Azzurra (Blanc) and her brother Manfredi (Lawrence) is discovered. The
two grown up without biological parents developed a morbid love
relationship, made of affection but also of contempt. Things take a
dramatic road when the woman decides to marry Timothy (Borelli),
detonating her brother's jealousy. But Azzurra is also jealous of her
brother, and of his relationship with the beautiful Viola (De Santis).
In this more than morbid environment, things can only get worse and Azzurra also has a relationship with Viola.
The tapes end there, but the story continues, because one day someone
left to the ornithologist a new recording, the one that brings us to an
interesting ending that reserves a twist.
