Il vestito da sposa

I saw recently this movie in Locarno Film Festival. It wasn't the first work of the director (Fiorella Infascelli), i hoped to see a nice italian comedy-drama plot... and the idea in the beginning was not stupid... the bad bad situation of a young girl livin' in country side that some days before her marriage is raped by a band of haunters. She starts to live a difficult situation with the mother and with the boy-friend. Soon she falls in love with a handsome boy, "casually" the one who was in the raper gang. He has to live this difficult situation too: loving her but knowing the indicible past of group-violence on her. I don't want to show the epilogue for who will see the movie in the next month, but i can say that the end is very bad, it's a final that transforms the all movie in a b-movie: a simple epilogue that underlines the impossibility of Fiorella Infascelli to get the right conclusion of her story. The worst movie seen in locarno 2003 Emanuele Scansani

To go with the stalker heroine of SPETTATRICE, current Italian movies give us a sensitive pack rapist here, not the first in their films either.

Director Infascelli whose other work I must seek out, knew what she was doing. This one wouldn't play with a chicken thieving lead. It makes most of what we get in English seem pretty pallid.

Sansa who was the chic, self possessed lead of BONGIORNO NOTTE is transformed into a scruffy trainee vet in the small town that the hoon gang members call a posta di merda. The film shows the isolation and mediocrity which produces their attitudes with conviction that manages to stay just outside realism, despite all detailed location filming. It is no small tribute to the makers' skill that the leads do become involving and the outcome of their relationship generates suspense.

Performance, shooting and unexpected choice of music make the dodgy content compelling.