This ultra-rare DVD
(imported by Brazil, in English with Portuguese subtitles) captures a
virtually unknown period in actress Jodie Foster's career. Here is an
Italian sex comedy starring Ms Foster, never released in the United States
- nor any other English-speaking country (also see her French sex coming-of-age
comedy STOP
CALLING ME BABY).
Almost the entire
film is set inside cabana No.19, a large public changing room along a
stretch of beach outside of Rome. Various eccentric groups come and go
throughout the day, and sometimes cross paths. Director Sergio Citti is
best known as Pasolini's longtime assistant director, as well as the co-writer
of SALO:
120 DAYS OF SODOM.
For this movie, the
omnibus plot deals with a macho soldier who stuffs his speedo in an attempt
to hide his pint-sized genitalia; a peep hole which allows the audience
to watch the naked girls' swim team in the adjoining cabana; a priest
who suffers from having a double penis; two women who attempt to seduce
a chasity-belt-wearing insurance agent. Of course there's also 14 year-old
Jodie Foster... she plays bikini-clad Teresina, a pregnant jail-bait teen
whose family is trying to find a husband for her.
An
Italian film; in black-and-white, fullscreen, uncut (94 min.) version,
in English language with non-removable Portuguese subtitles, in DVD encoded
for ALL REGIONS, playable on any American machine.
