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5/10
Hippy Art Pap Baffle
Bezenby3 March 2019
During my review of Blood and Diamonds, I wondered whether or not Claudio Cassinelli had ever starred in any comedic roles or ever did any smiling. Well, in this film he's both smiling and trying to give Giancarlo Prete one up the botty.

You'll be thinking 'that doesn't sound like the regular plot of a seventies Italian cop film and you'd be right. I don't even know where this film fits in from a genre perspective. It might be a comedy, but then it isn't funny and is a bit heavy on the darkness. My guess would be that director Tonino Cervi is striving for some sort of Fellini-type atmosphere, giving us a city full of weird and wonderful characters.

Angela and Suzy are two free-loving, mooching, possibly smelly, definitely disease ridden hedonists perpetually out for a good time. Both meet up in a toilet during a party where one of them steals an expensive ring which they then try to sell on, leading them on a strange adventure through a dark night in Milan. First off they meet taxi driver Giancarlo Prete, who joins them on their quest to sell the ring.

The bit where they meet a bereaved family with a gory corpse kind of went nowhere for me, but after that its plain sailing as the girls meet a bunch of transvestites, have an open air shag in a car, get robbed of their money and meet an eccentric married couple who love putting it about. Lynn, these are sex people!

In fact, everybody in this film has a better sex life than anyone who exists today in this world of computer and TV binging. They'd all be dead of the syph by now I guess. I'm not sure why I watched this one to be honest.
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3/10
Little known, and perhaps for good reason
Leofwine_draca3 November 2018
Warning: Spoilers
THE LONG NIGHT is a little-known Italian comedy/drama, starring Susanna Javicoli (of SUSPIRIA fame) and directed by Tonino Cervi, perhaps best known for QUEENS OF EVIL. It's an oddball production that takes a journey through some of the more bizarre aspects of modern society. The story follows a pair of fun-loving girls as they discover a priceless diamond ring and attempt to pawn it with the aid of their taxi driver friend. Their journey leads them to encounter dead bodies, transvestites, and finally a mysterious couple with a dark side. Some mild eroticism follows, but the humour doesn't really translate too well and the whole thing feels rather slow and insignificant.
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3/10
Commedia Sexy with Sara SPERATI and Giancarlo PRETE
ZeddaZogenau20 February 2024
Two extremely open-hearted Milanese women (Sara SPERATI, Susanna JAVICOLI) roam the city one night. They come across all sorts of strange characters (Max DELYS, Giorgio ALBERTAZZI, Martine BROCCHARD) and also take away a valuable ring. In tow they have the hunky taxi driver Vito (Giancarlo PRETE), who has also been "used" in films just for adults. Open-minded as he is, he copulates diligently with the two ladies in the taxi, but he turns down a rich slob (Claudio CASSINELLI).

This may have been pretty daring in the 1970s, but today it just seems unintentionally funny.

Some Italo films are rightly forgotten!
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