Obscure Italian thriller with '68 protest back ground and stunning Morricone score. Someone dies in an awkward situation and years later when all but one of those present have become very well off, the other possibly begins to send blackmail notes. Pretty confusing and not helped by the fact that the subtitles on my print were on and off the screen in a blink of the eye and there was a lot of chatter too. Great conclusion at the beach with wonderful blow up plastic chairs. Meanwhile we have visited a very dull and dank looking Milan but all has been enlivened by that music featuring the voice of Edda Dell'Orso and I cantori moderni di Alessandro Alessandroni. An unusual film and amazing and unique soundtrack from the master.
4 Reviews
Soundtrack is more famous than the movie
dopefishie8 April 2024
First, this is not a giallo. There are elements of a thriller and comedy. But I think it's mostly a criticism of society. And I found it to be sad.
The acting is quite good. Lino Capolicchio really stands out here and steals every scene he is in. The story is also interesting. Though, I'm sure the poor subtitles added to the mystery, and I'm betting the film would be more straightforward and less mysterious if I knew Italian.
The version I had was poorly edited with abrupt transitions. It may just be the version I saw and perhaps there is another version out there with better editing. Also, the version I saw had long periods without a score. But when the score does emerge, it is pretty amazing stuff from a time gone by. Psychedelic and kind of haunting sound. Online, it appears that the soundtrack is more famous than the movie. It's a real treat from Ennio Morricone.
The acting is quite good. Lino Capolicchio really stands out here and steals every scene he is in. The story is also interesting. Though, I'm sure the poor subtitles added to the mystery, and I'm betting the film would be more straightforward and less mysterious if I knew Italian.
The version I had was poorly edited with abrupt transitions. It may just be the version I saw and perhaps there is another version out there with better editing. Also, the version I saw had long periods without a score. But when the score does emerge, it is pretty amazing stuff from a time gone by. Psychedelic and kind of haunting sound. Online, it appears that the soundtrack is more famous than the movie. It's a real treat from Ennio Morricone.
Morals
BandSAboutMovies26 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Six years after committing a murder and getting away with it - they used to pick up strangers at bars and play sex games with them while taking pictures, but one of them accidentally dies - Lea (Marília Branco), Andrea (Roberto Bisacco) and Vanni (Daniel Sola) get a photo of them that proves they are guilty. They pay the blackmail - they're all rich enough now - but the messages keep coming. Who is it? Is it one of the three? Old friend Carletto (Lino Capolicchio) who is back in town? So cosa hai fatto l'estate scorsa?
The English translation of this movie is Shame on you, swine! And the film really shows how empty and pointless the lives of the idle rich are. They would have hated Carletto even if they didn't think he was the one holding their past crimes over their collective heads; he's a left wing radical artist who hates the capitalism that has given them whatever life they sleepwalk through.
Directed by Mauro Severino, who wrote the story with Giuseppe D'Agata, this film comes before the giallo form was set by Argento. At this point, they could be anything from a Hitchcock ripoff to a movie like this that uses crime and sleaze to poke at the ways of Milan in 1969.
Based around the nursery rhyme "Giro giro tondo" ("Ring Around the Rosie"), this Ennio Morricone soundtrack makes this even better.
The English translation of this movie is Shame on you, swine! And the film really shows how empty and pointless the lives of the idle rich are. They would have hated Carletto even if they didn't think he was the one holding their past crimes over their collective heads; he's a left wing radical artist who hates the capitalism that has given them whatever life they sleepwalk through.
Directed by Mauro Severino, who wrote the story with Giuseppe D'Agata, this film comes before the giallo form was set by Argento. At this point, they could be anything from a Hitchcock ripoff to a movie like this that uses crime and sleaze to poke at the ways of Milan in 1969.
Based around the nursery rhyme "Giro giro tondo" ("Ring Around the Rosie"), this Ennio Morricone soundtrack makes this even better.
Worst giallo?
Leofwine_draca24 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
DIRTY ANGELS (1969, original title) is truly one of the worst gialli I've ever sat through, although it doesn't help that the Youtube copy is fuzzy and scuzzy (kudos for the English subtitles, however). It starts off strongly enough, with a trio committing murder and getting away with their crime, before cutting to the present day where they're targeted by a blackmailer who seemingly knows everything about their crime. Shades of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER here, but the plotting is just ultra-boring and completely confused; it's not often I watch a film not knowing what the heck is going on, but that was the case here. There are no likeable characters to identify with, just a repetitive Ennio Morricone score (based on the 'ring a ring a roses' nursery rhyme) which soon began to grate on me, and plenty of tedious waffle.
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