SQUILLO

Disastrous return to giallo, after "Sotto il vestito niente", for the Vanzina brothers. In the previous film, the terrible masters of Italian comedy had attempted the "DePalmian" atmosphere in "Omicidio a luci rosse", here they mix the pure genre (with all the defects and stereotypes) with insipid actresses and turn beauties: more skilled at showing breasts and long hair than acting. Maria (Jennifer Driver), a Polish girl who hasn't seen her sister in many years, decides to come to Italy to surprise her; upon arriving in Milan, she discovers that her sister Eva (Bianca Coedan) lives in luxury thanks to her work as a prostitute (hence the original title). When the lifeless body of the beautiful Eva is found, the sister will decide with Commissioner Messina (an inexpressive Raz Degan) to investigate. Really a bad movie, which tries to attract careless teenagers with Degan and Driver and has a cinematic genesis halfway between the novel by Marco Parma, which served as the screenplay for their first film, and a "Scerbanenchian" tendency to investigate Milanese prostitution. The Vanzinas waste the talent of Franco Ferrini, screenwriter of the last Dario Argento, and the music of a great like Pino Donaggio since they alternate the film's theme with an unnecessary and inappropriate music by Robert Miles (alias Roberto Concina) that was popular at the time: "Children". A small curiosity: the film looks a lot, too much, like the first (and last) film by Ferrini as a director: "Caramelle da uno sconosciuto", remake or few ideas?