I read a great article, "A Genealogy of Italian Popular Cinema: the Filone," on Offscreen in which Donato Totaro explained that the filone is not easily categorized. We can see the term to mean not just a genre, but if you will, a body of water that flows into other streams. To quote the article, "...the filone is more flexible than genre or subgenre, taking in the idea of cycles, trends, currents, and traditions."
It also breaks down the main years of the Giallo as 1962-1982 and the Poliziottesco as 1968-1978. Of course, movies in these filone were made after - if not before - and there are different versions of both.
This is all to explain that 1973's Long Lasting Days fits into the time periods of both of the above genre and can have a little of both, a combo plate, if you will.
Andrea Rispoli (Mino Reitano, whose bands with his family, Benjamin & His Brothers, played the Star-Club in Hamburg with The Beatles) has fallen in love with a woman he's met at the boarding house where they both live named Anna Andersson (Ewa Aulin, Miss Teen Sweden 1965 and Miss Teen International 1966, who turned that early fame into an acting career which found her appearing in Col cuore in gola, La morte ha fatto l'uovo, The Legend of Blood Castle, Death Smiles on a Murderer and the movie she made with her husband John Shadow, Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion; this is the last movie she made before going to college and becoming a school teacher). She has a heart condition that could end her life at any time - and learns this after being assaulted and surviving by jumping through a glass window in case you wondered if this was an Italian movie - so Andrea decides to put his life on the line by allowing a group of rich people - led by Philippe (Philippe Leroy) and his wife (Eva Czemerys) - to hunt him. If he survives, he will make enough money to potentially save Anna.
Directed and written by Ferdinando Baldi (Texas Adios, Coming at Ya!), this pits a poor man enraptured by love against a group of bored rich society types who want to hunt the wold's most dangerous game. They will be allowed to attack Andrea five times as he tries to get through the entire city, using a knife, a rifle, a vehicle, fire and brass knuckles which hang over a dance floor at a wild party that can only exist in Italian exploitation movies.
For someone known as a singer, Mino Reitano is pretty good in this, a man forced to abandon his dispassionate sailor ways to be in love and care for someone. Does he become too trusting too fast? That's for you to find out.
It also breaks down the main years of the Giallo as 1962-1982 and the Poliziottesco as 1968-1978. Of course, movies in these filone were made after - if not before - and there are different versions of both.
This is all to explain that 1973's Long Lasting Days fits into the time periods of both of the above genre and can have a little of both, a combo plate, if you will.
Andrea Rispoli (Mino Reitano, whose bands with his family, Benjamin & His Brothers, played the Star-Club in Hamburg with The Beatles) has fallen in love with a woman he's met at the boarding house where they both live named Anna Andersson (Ewa Aulin, Miss Teen Sweden 1965 and Miss Teen International 1966, who turned that early fame into an acting career which found her appearing in Col cuore in gola, La morte ha fatto l'uovo, The Legend of Blood Castle, Death Smiles on a Murderer and the movie she made with her husband John Shadow, Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion; this is the last movie she made before going to college and becoming a school teacher). She has a heart condition that could end her life at any time - and learns this after being assaulted and surviving by jumping through a glass window in case you wondered if this was an Italian movie - so Andrea decides to put his life on the line by allowing a group of rich people - led by Philippe (Philippe Leroy) and his wife (Eva Czemerys) - to hunt him. If he survives, he will make enough money to potentially save Anna.
Directed and written by Ferdinando Baldi (Texas Adios, Coming at Ya!), this pits a poor man enraptured by love against a group of bored rich society types who want to hunt the wold's most dangerous game. They will be allowed to attack Andrea five times as he tries to get through the entire city, using a knife, a rifle, a vehicle, fire and brass knuckles which hang over a dance floor at a wild party that can only exist in Italian exploitation movies.
For someone known as a singer, Mino Reitano is pretty good in this, a man forced to abandon his dispassionate sailor ways to be in love and care for someone. Does he become too trusting too fast? That's for you to find out.
