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There are two "Giallo" in Venice not one. There is to understand who
and how made a movie like this. What sick mind can go so far? There is
also to understand who and why has financed this movie.
Because "Giallo in Venezia" is an incredible trash moment that
comes to us from 1979. Proud on the one hand to have this jewel in our
reviews on the other hand we must say that it was very difficult to see
this movie.
Mario Landi, the director of “Le Inchieste Del Commissario Maigret”,
but above all is the man who gave us trash pearls in the last years of
his career, including the unforgettable "Patrick Still Lives."
A comparison between the two works is almost reassess the history of
horror "Patrick Still Lives", which also shares some interpreter with
this erotic movie. Hard to believe, but "Giallo A Venezia" is really
worst than "Patrick Still Lives". And we are optimistic.
The story in itself is not credible, such as all the various suspects
and witnesses seem to compete for who is the best "asshole", forgetting
events and representing them later. If you see a strange thing and you
have no need to hide, why you say it some times after apologizing to
have forgotten? Boh.
The police however is more than bizarre. Someone is a maniac who finds
pleasure in doing autopsies on women (...), someone is a diligent and
silent cop, all led by Commissioner De Paul that looks like a character
from the mythical Merli after smoking marijuana. Disheveled, agitated,
with a failed sense of humor and with the catchphrase of hard-boiled
eggs with the that continues to eat for the whole story. Gesture
that serves to characterize the character, either as Kojak with
lollipops or maybe Maigret's pipe, but the choice is very annoying.
Landi doesn't hide his desire of extreme. Eroticism bordeline with home
made porn, which was probably inserted to attract more audience, but in
reality, due to its roughness, reduces even more the film. And then a
couple of splatter scenes, very violent, which have the same effect of
the eroticism, ie They undermine even more the whole.
What we would like to save (in part) is the narration of the
story, that consists of long flashbacks interspersed by contemporary
investigations. But only that.
It starts with a couple found dead in a canal of Venice. Our
commissioner begins to investigate the life of the couple, who turns
out to be focused on morbid sex. Meanwhile a psychopath kills so grim a
couple of victims, murders that are worth of tho additional words. A
prostitute stabbed in the vagina (and she bleed from the mouth
...) and a woman who is cut off one leg and then stored in a
refrigerator. In the second case, the protagonist is Mariangela
Giordano, as well as having had minor parts in many films (some even
well done), it makes a bad end in "Patrick Still Lives" too.
Apart from these little curiosity "Giallo in Venezia" drags with vague
twists and cob the aforementioned erotic scenes of series B and the
Commissioner continues to gesticulate and eating eggs. Then comes the
final scene instead to amaze everyone, as it would like, gives a sense
of liberation. Not for the plot, but because the "Giallo A Venezia"
ends. Us that we had made an omelet for dinner, we remain fasting
throughout the redundant trash that we saw.
Gianni Dei, unwatchable acting, is Fabio, the protagonist. The manic,
morbid, man of the couple who forces his wife to strange affair,
exhibitionists and more. His battered wife is played by Leonora Fani a
small star of the seventies, famous for erotic movies and some service
in Playboy and Playmen.
Technical
Original title: Giallo In Venice
Alternative titles: Yellow in Venice (International), Gore in Venice, Thriller in Venice (Indefinite), Mystery in Venice (USA)
Year: 1979
Directed by: Mario Landi
Country: Italy
Cast: Gianni Dei, Leonora Fani, Jeff Blynn, Michele Renzullo, Aeolus Capritti, Vassilli Karis, Mariangela Giordano
Production Company: Elea Film
Duration: 91 '
