Today I'd rather be...
... sand surf and staching
with vintage Giancarlo Giannini.
I watched the 1965 proto-giallo
Libido last night, which stars a baby
Giancarlo as the son of a suicided sex-fiend who returns to his ancestral home only to find all that bad shit bubbling back up. This was Giannini's very first film and you can tell he's going to have a long career already, grounding the outlandishness of the plot with real sadness and anger amongst the silliness.
He's great! And so is that picture up top of him somewhat later in his career that I stumbled upon while looking him up while also watching the movie, as I'm wont to do with movies while at home now. Anyway Radiance just put out a
great blu-ray of this movie so check it out if you dig the giallo vibe -- the last act is super bonkers with a series of rug-pulls that reminded me of no less than the masterpiece that is John McNaughton's
Wild Things. And I posted a spoilery bit from the movies final moments
on my Instagram Stories if you just want a taste of the outrageousness.
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