Lady of the Night (1986 film)

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Lady of the Night
La signiora della notte (1986 Film).jpg
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by Piero Schivazappa
Written byPiero Schivazappa
Galliano Juso
Produced byGiovanni Bertolucci
Starring Serena Grandi
Cinematography Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Music by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
Distributed by Variety Distribution
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
Country Italy
LanguageItalian

Lady of the Night (Italian : La signora della notte, also known as Angelina and Angelina: Lady of the Night) is a 1986 Italian erotic romantic drama film written and directed by Piero Schivazappa. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Plot

Simona and Marco live in a pleasant apartment in the centre of Rome and drive a large Lancia but, after three years of marriage, Simona feels unfulfilled. Remembering the passion when they first met, and wondering whether this could now be found with a stranger, she lets herself be seduced in the hallway of their building and later in a public toilet.

When a couple come to dinner and at the end all four drive to the seaside, she is having sex with the other man when Marco finds them. After he beats the man unconscious and then beats Simona, she leaves him to stay with a friend from her aerobics class.

When two attempts at reconciliation fail, Simona decides that she needs a baby and has her IUD removed. A few days later, to her horror, she is raped in her friend's apartment by an intruder whose face she never sees. On the floor afterwards, she finds a medallion that had fallen from his neck in the struggle: it is one she gave to Marco, engraved with his name. Taking it back to him, she finds that the passion has returned to their marriage.

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References

  1. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.
  2. ↑ Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN   887742429X.
  3. ↑ Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer. ISBN   8820029197.
  4. ↑ R. F. (1986-03-15). "Se il marito la trascura Serena si consola così". La Repubblica . p. 30. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
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