I have loved this film since first seeing it upon its limited UK release, then again on video and I find that watching it once more after several more years it is as enjoyable as ever. And this is despite the static one room setting and the presence of Bob Hoskins, who does well enough, but is not my favourite actor. Dreyfuss is tremendous, after Close Encounters and before Jaws and Jessica Harper excellent a year before Susperia - Argento just has to have seen her wide eyed stares, that crooked smile and brazen nudity and language. At the start we see a group watching a scene from a pornographic stag film, in b/w and then proceed to see the same film being made. It would have been nice to see more of the contrast between the 'making of' and the finished product but the writer/director is more interested in the sexual dynamics between the performers than the film itself and it is very much to his credit that he ever managed to get such a controversial film made - even if it was the 70s!
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