Giuliana Gamba

조 다마토는 누구인가? 미국에선 호러의 천재, 프랑스에선 에로티시즘의 대가, 이탈리아에선 포르노의 왕. 수많은 별명을 지닌 이 남자는 200편이 넘는 작품에서 프로듀서, 감독, 작가, 사진 감독, 그리고 카메라 오퍼레이터까지 동시에 해낸다. 자칭 영화의 장인인 그는 모든 장르를 아우른다. 스파게티 웨스턴부터 포스트 아토믹, 데카메로틱부터 글로시 에로티시즘, 그리고 블록버스터 포르노에서 블러디 호러까지. Joe D’amato는 궁극의 미학을 가이드 삼고 부정할 수 없는 기술력의 도움을 받아 그가 헌신적으로 따랐기에 그를 대표하게 된 세 가지 코드 ‘놀라움, 충격, 스캔들’의 한계까지 스스로와 관객을 밀어 붙인다. 하나의 장르, 어느 것도 아닌 장르, 또는 백 가지의 장르가 한 명의 화자에게 담겼다. 이 영화는 독특하고 억제할 수 없는 파괴적인 집착, 즉 영화에 헌신한 그의 무모한 삶에 대한 이야기를 들려준다.

Irma (Claudia Gerini), Eugenia (Angela Finocchiaro), Miranda (Caterina Guzzanti) and Rina (Paola Minaccioni) are four different women, each with their own character, their own weaknesses and their own eccentricities, but linked by a deep and lasting knowledge over time, united and marked by their essential card games. When they decide to participate in a national buraco tournament and get out of their everyday life, they will suddenly find themselves with their cards exposed. Life always offers a second chance and love can go back to upsetting at any age. After all, it is the game of burraco that has taught him that a game must be played completely, to the end, and that no result is ever taken for granted.

Irma (Claudia Gerini), Eugenia (Angela Finocchiaro), Miranda (Caterina Guzzanti) and Rina (Paola Minaccioni) are four different women, each with their own character, their own weaknesses and their own eccentricities, but linked by a deep and lasting knowledge over time, united and marked by their essential card games. When they decide to participate in a national buraco tournament and get out of their everyday life, they will suddenly find themselves with their cards exposed. Life always offers a second chance and love can go back to upsetting at any age. After all, it is the game of burraco that has taught him that a game must be played completely, to the end, and that no result is ever taken for granted.

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.

Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.

A wife escapes her pressure-filled marriage only to have her husband haunt her literally and figuratively.

A wife escapes her pressure-filled marriage only to have her husband haunt her literally and figuratively.

A young girl witnesses her mother having sex with the family dog. When her father finds out, he burns the dog alive. She is so traumatized by these incidents that she later turns into a nymphomaniac. She moves to an island and lives there with her own dog, having sex with various guests who visit her.