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Il Sesso degli Angeli
The Sex of Angels
Das Geschlecht der Engel
Italy / West Germany 1968
produced by Franz Seitz, Giorgio Venturini for Filmes Cinematografica, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
directed by Ugo Liberatore
starring Bernard De Vries, Rosemary Dexter, Doris Kunstmann, Laura Troschel, Giovanni Petrucci, Efisio Cabras, Brizio Montinaro, Silvana Bacci, Hans Jürgen Neumann
screenplay by Ugo Liberatore, Franz Seitz, music by Giovanni Fusco
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Best friends Nancy (Rosemary Dexter), Nora (Doris Kunstmann) and Carla
(Laura Troschel) decide to borrow Nora's dad's yacht for a weekend to set
over to Yugoslavia from Italy to for the first time in their lives take
LSD, and they pretty much kidnap chance acquaintance Marco (Bernard De
Vries) to go with them - not that he at all complains, as the girl are all
cute, are naked a lot, and the promise of an LSD trip is rather tempting
as well. Thing is, the morning after their trip, none of the four can
remember what has happened that night, but Marco has been shot in his
lower chest - not life-threatingly mind you, and at first he hardly
notices it. However, they really can't take him to a hospital in
Yugoslavia as he didn't even bring his passport, and Italy is quite a few
miles away yet, and the longer the injury is left untreated, the worse
Marco feels. So bad actually that the girls go for morphine in one of the
coastal villages they pass - but since one can't just get morphine over
the counter in Yugoslavia, Carla goes so far as to give up her virginity
to a sleazy drugist to get the stuff. But even with morphine, Marco's
condition steadily declines - but the problem is, even if the girls get
him into an Italian hospital on time, questions will be asked, and these
questions might make it very uncomfortable for our heroines ... The
Sex of Angels is an unusual film for sure, it starts out as a
relatively light erotic comedy, and a quite stylishly shot one at that,
but around halfway through turns into a mixture of thriller and character
piece, carried by a very ambitious, almost artsy directorial effort. And
for the most part, this combination works, too. That said, the film goes
on a bit too long, tries a bit too hard to make its point, but in all it's
still pretty cool vintage entertainment with a wonderfully European twang
to it.
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