Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
FLORIANA
Incidentally, is it true you slept with your mother, Oliviero? When you were already grown up, I mean.
OLIVIERO
Is it true about you being a two-bit whore?
FLORIANA
Well, they might be considered two bits well spent.
Ridiculously long title aside, this is probably Sergio Martino's most interesting film. No, it's not as outright satisfying as The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, or as gleefully trippy as All the Colors of the Dark, but it contains more depth than his usual giallo offerings, and even if it ends up simply serving up the usual clichés in a slightly less familiar form, it hints at what the man was capable of if he put his mind to it.
By the way, it's good to see that NoShame Films have finally moved away from the fetid world of PAL to NTSC standards conversions, delivering a proper progressive scan transfer. The presentation is still far from ideal (it's way too filtered, and there is a noticeable stair-stepping effect to diagonal lines that suggests a rushed scaling job), but it's a big step up from their last two Martino releases.
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