ZELDA (1974) erotic insanity from Alberto Cavallone
3679DVD
Unconventional
Cinema Insanity from Alberto Cavallone
Original
Italian Title: ZELDA
director: Alberto
Cavallone
starring Maria Pia Luzi (as Jane Avril) · James Harris ·
Margaret Keil · Franca Gonella · Debebe Eshetu
Zelda
and Henry Davis are a couple with very peculiar sexual tastes. But they
have a problem, their daughter Ingrid is still living at home and she's
old enough to figure out what's going on. In their quest for more freedom,
they send Ingrid to study away in a boarding school. Zelda and Henry
begin a relationship with Ursula but soon grow tired of her. Then they
recruit Christian and his wife Clarissa into their games. When daughter
Ingrid comes home to visit, she brings an unexpected transformation
into the proceedings.
Unlike
other filmmakers who started their careers in a rather conventional
format and then drifted into cinematic madness (i.e., Renato
Polselli) Alberto Cavallone was an anti-establishment filmmaker who
notoriously pushed the envelope in the name of avant garde cinema from
the beginning (see his debut film QUICKLY
for a comparison). As his projects became more bizarre and ultimately
inaccessible, he ran into distribution trouble. But he never compromised
his incredulous vision (eventually dabbling in bizarre hardcore like
BEING
CAPTURED). Alberto-Cavallone's career stopped abruptly when
he died from heart failure at age 59 in 1997.
An
Italian film with English subtitles; widescreen [16:9] format, uncut (77
min.), DVD encoded for
ALL REGION NTSC, playable on any American machine.
Violence/Nudity/Sexual
Brutality/Rape/Incest
For Adult Audiences
