Sex and fury

So, Miss I and I went to watch a film at the Offscreen Festival, and she carefully selected this. Her main criteria was that it was the first film not part of a series she could see. Right.

It tells the story of a girl intent on revenge. She witnessed her father assassination, became a pickpocket and a gambler and went on to avenge the murder. Naked. In the snow. On her way she meets a guy in love with the most ridiculous spy ever, a corrupt politician or two, her long lost mother, nuns with knives, a lesbian maid and gets whipped in a church. Yeah. Right. 

The main actress is nice enough, the score is nice for a 1973 motion picture (read: a kitsch fashion statement nowadays), and the scenery and props are just awful (read: they were laughable even in 1973). The scenery is particularly bad, with parts looking to be made for dwarves because the perspective is completely screwed. And the colours, especially the walls, are just plain ugly. So ugly it is shocking. 

The plot is good, when you consider that it is mainly an excuse for some bad (very) softcore porn scenes and bloody chambara (with bad fake artifical blood, of course, you know, the purple gruelly kind) with a female ass popping in and out of it.

Still, I liked it. It has some good scenes, isn't really boring, and is adequately played. All things being considered, if you take it for what it is worth and come to it without any expectations, it is good enough. And, the chances are you have never seen it before. An interesting experience, but not a film I'll watch twice. On some points it is better than Kill Bill. The main ones being that it is shorter, the plot is clearly an excuse for some visual carnage, and that it is just plain funny, deliberately or not ;-)