A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... (lit. 'A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services...') is a 1972 Italian giallo film directed by Demofilo Fidani.
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| Directed by | Demofilo Fidani |
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| Story by | Demofilo Fidani[1] |
| Starring | Paola Senatore |
| Cinematography | Aldo Giordani[2] |
| Edited by | Piera Bruni[2] |
| Music by | Coriolano Gori[2] |
Production company | Tarquinia Internazionale Cinematografica[1] |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Plot
editCristina is working as a call-girl. Her clients are mysteriously and brutally murdered one after another.
Cast
edit- Paola Senatore as Cristina Graziani
- Simonetta Vitelli (credited as Simone Blondell) as Paola[2])
Production
editFilm historian and critic Roberto Curti described A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... as being part of a minor wave of low-budget giallo films in second run and third-run venues.[3]
The film"s script was written by director Demofilo Fidani and his wife Mila Vitelli.[4] Unlike most of Fidani's films (predominantly Westerns) in which he is credited under an English alias, the director is credited by his (real) Italian name.[5]
Genre
editThe Italian database Cinematografo defines the film's subgenre as erotic thriller.[2] The film contains elements of horror[6] and slasher.[3]
Release
editA.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... was released in 1972.[7][8] For its release in France the same year, the film's version and its title (Caresses à domicile) are noted as "very daring",[9] the film being presented as a mere "erotic film" by La Revue du cinéma[10] or a 'porn third-rate production' by Écran'[11]
Reception
editFrom retrospective reviews, Roberto Curti described the film as containing elements of Demofilo Fidani's typical style, specifically Western-type revolvers and villains falling in slow motion in "unlikely acrobatic manners."[7] Antonio Bruschini, of the Italian genre magazine Nocturno, found the ending of the film and the culprit predictable but noted that A.A.A. Massaggiatrice reflected the Argentinean atmosphere of the period.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi... (1972)". Archivio del cinema Italiano (in Italian). Archived from the original on July 31, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi...", Cinematograf.it (in Italian), archived from the original on April 19, 2023, retrieved July 31, 2023
- ^ a b Curti 2022, p. 224.
- ^ Curti 2022, p. 226.
- ^ a b Bruschini.
- ^ Palmerini & Mistretta 1996, p. 171.
- ^ a b Curti 2022, p. 225.
- ^ Curti 2022, p. 9.
- ^ Gomarasca, Manlio; Pulici, Davide (2013-07-24). La piccola cineteca degli orrori: Tutti i FILM che i fratelli Lumière non avrebbero mai voluto vedere (in Italian). Bureau. ISBN 978-88-586-5486-6.
- ^ La Revue du cinéma: image et son (in French). Ligue française de l'enseignement et de l'éducation permanente. 1974.
- ^ Ecran (in French). Editions de l'Atlante. 1974.
Sources
edit- Bruschini, Antonio. "AAA Masseuse beautiful presence offered". Nocturno. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
- Curti, Roberto (2022). Italian Giallo in Film and Television. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-8248-8.
- Palmerini, Luca M.; Mistretta, Gaetano (1996). Spaghetti Nightmares: Italian Fantasy-horrors as Seen Through the Eyes of Their Protagonists. Fantasma Books. ISBN 978-0-9634982-7-4.