joe damato hard sensations 1980

joe damato hard sensations 1980
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This rare entry in D�fAmato�fs Caribbean series concerns three high-school girls (Annj GorenDirce Furnari and another actress) residing in Haitiwho have been kept from their French families away from the world at largewhich they feel is going to seed and may have a bad influence on them. Thuswhen the three families go to Paris on business during the summer holidaysthey decide that the best thing for them is that they do not accompany them and remain on a private desert island where they are to remain under the supervision of their strict schoolmistress Miss Brent (Lucia Ramirez) and two sailors who are to act as bodyguards. The three girlsfor their partare frequently engaged in playing with themselves or each other for lack of any other company. The planned summer holiday seems to go as planned until three convicts arrive on the site and eliminate the two sailorsthus leaving the island�fs female inhabitants almost entirely in the hands of the vicious Beber (Mark Shannon) and his edgy homosexual accomplice (actor unknown)with only the sensible Clyde (George Eastman) offering a glimmer of hope for the captives. The women�fs introduction to sex with men will be an unfortunate one andat the endonce the whole melodrama is overMiss Brent gives a final speech whereby the moral status quo will be restoredhowever spuriously.
The best moments here unfortunately come too soon in the running time. I enjoyed the establishing sceneresolved by D�fAmato in two shotsof a jeep making its way among assorted cars and bicycles through bare urban locations lined by blocky edifices to the sweeping theme tune by Alessandro Alessandroni. Showing a similarly commendable simplicityD�fAmato neatly gets through another establishing scene ? the two sailors setting the scene for us in a brief dialogue exchange as they load the boat in which they are to take the girls ? in one singlebarely mobile long shots caught from a high angle of the two men in conversation. The rest of the film ? basically a �glast house�h scenario ?is less interesting and let down by D�fAmato�fs lax direction.
Featured in the cast are some hardcore scenes between Ramirez and Shannon that appear to recur in many of the filmmaker�fs Caribbean films. Now that we�fve mentioned Ramirezher acting is so weak that it obviously posed a problem for her Italian dubber: should she perform at the level of the onscreen actress or at her best* She chose the latterwith the result that her effortsconveying an intensity that Ramirez�fs face does not havealmost register as an overkill. The rest of the cast is betterthe Italian dubbing is top-notch andamong the female castAnnj Goren is the best looking.
Finallythis may be a coincidence but am I right in noticing a recurring strain of generational confrontation in D�fAmato�fs films?
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