From the director of Mondo Cane, this red herring filled post Crystal Plumage yarn opens with an erotic massage and delivers stylish suspense, impressively shot murder setpieces, and lush soundwaves courtesy of the legendary Ennio Morricone.
A perfect recipe for a lurid linguini murder jam.
Giancarlo Gianinni is wonderful here as a cop heading down a labyrinth of dead bodies, blackmail, and drug trafficking—in fact the cast of genre staples (Claudine Auger, Barbara Bouchet, and Barbara Bach) are all solid, and the rest of this is loaded with all kinds of glorious euro hokum: beautiful Rome locations, crazy foot chases, swanky apartments, red herrings galore, an adorable cat, latex gloves... but to me the real standout is the intense murder…