Black Aphrodite

I love this film. Annik Borel is wonderful, and the wooden acting of the rest of the cast is made up for by her utter perfection. I first saw her in La Lupa mannara, and the very next day went in search of other films with her in them. I bought this one and was not disappointed.

This fast moving sex, heist, sex, murder, and sex film...succeeds in entertaining along the lines of the euro-spy and action films it emulates. The unusual variant is that statuesque Tamara, the black Aphrodite of the title is put in command by the higher ups running the operation designed to discover who on their team is putting a spanner in the works. The guys don't like the idea of "working with a chick" but she soon establishes her supremacy and can more than hold her own among them. This includes quickly bonding with the most aggressive and sexiest leader of the group (Haris Tryfonas) whom she takes every opportunity to mount in the female dominant position when they are not out chasing or tracking down the murderer who's eliminating their team members one by one. Some judicious cutting of repetitive dwelling on Wilson's bare derrière and more control of the often senseless cutting would have tightened this up and improved it immensely. As usual, Tryfonas steals the picture as he has in every film in which he appears. His edginess and underlying quality of menace keep him from being merely handsome and/or sexy, with the uncanny ability to outshine everyone else in the cast even in minor roles, causing them to seem dull in comparison. To be fair, because of her unusualness, Ajita Wilson is a good foil for him in this film. They definitely made an "odd couple" action team.