Il delitto allo specchio, review from LaStampa – 21.07.1964

Il delitto allo specchio
Il delitto allo specchio

Il delitto allo specchio: A giallo about the dolce vita

The dangerous flirtations of a group of young followers of La dolce vita who, gathered in a lonely castle by the shady Serena, give themselves over to the cruel and sensual games of society, in the midst of which a beautiful girl is found mysteriously murdered.  Who did it?  Unable to call the police, they play detective on each other, and all of them are revealed to have weaknesses, particularly the owner of the castle, who has already been hospitalised for neurasthenia, a false housekeeper and a crazy looking servent.  The clues thicken, and obviously the true culprit isn’t among the cheif suspects.  Too bad.  It’s the only originality in a giallo that chews up Sade and Freud into a clumsy mince  and where the performers – including the sexy Antonella Lualdi, who departs too soon – dangle, the script is unrevealing and the direction is static.  Jean Josopivici and Ambrogio Molteni are jointly responsible for this amateurish concoction, which also mixes in chills and stripteases, and also features Mario Valdemarin, Gloria Milland, Vittoria Prada, Monique Vita, Luisa Rivelli and, in the role of an unheeded psychic, the bushy and lacey John Drew Barrymore

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