It would be hypocritical of me to rail vs sex movies since I've watched (and reviewed) plenty of them. But still I maintain there is a difference between liking a liberal amount of salt on your food and just eating a large bowl salt. Modern-day sex films, whether they be hardcore or softcore, are like a large bowl of salt--they have a lot of sex in them, but absolutely nothing else of substance or interest.As sex movies go this is top drawer. It has very nice production values (aside from the atrocious English dubbing, but that wasn't the Italian filmmakers fault). The melody especially is excellent--it's interesting and varied and not the usual sub-Kenny G. crap found in sex films. The cinematography is also very nice (and it's 35-mm movie rather than digital video). The lead Loredana Catanada is absolutely stunning and a truly natural beauty (sans the over-sized silicone tits that come standard with most porn stars today). She was also a nice enough actress to eventually break into the mainstream (despite the fact that some of her sex scenes here would technically be considered hardcore). As for the the plot, well, it's serviceable if very generic. Cantanada is the titular (and ass-ular)"she-wolf" who picks up one anonymous boy after another, sometimes two at a time. She won't say them her name or she gives them a fake one. The conflict arises when a naive, directionless college student falls in love with her and tries to receive her to change her ways.If you like Tinto Brass films, you will no doubt like this a a lot as director Aurelio Grimaldi is obviously very much in debt to the old master (of bating). But the film also suffers from the same liabilities as a Brass film. Despite the non-stop sex and Cantanada's superb and perpetually naked body, this film is now cute boring. It looks good, but is also rather dull I'm scared (OK, there is some comic reliefs involving a bunch of mooks trying to pick up transvesites because they allegedly give better b.j.'s--but what that has to do with anything I don't know). This is about as tasty as a large bowl of salt can be, but it's still a large bowl salt nevertheless.
I watched this film to see if, a part from the true sex, there was other reason to watch it. I am generally well-disposed about sex in the movies, I can understand also Tinto Brass' recent production, but believe me I still couldn't understand what was the target of director Damiani. Even on DVD edition the terrible extras and the nasty monologue of Loredana Cannata didn't support to search out the reasons why this film was filmed. But I'm ready to listen your opinions in case
**SPOILERS.** Anyway the plot is about a voluptuous girl that jump hungry from a boy to another
a student falls in love for her. And that's all! Loredana Cannata act shamelessly in many, not so soft-core scenes, and at least in one of those the sex is real, in fact she give oral sex to Arturo Paglia; but be quiet it is just for 4 seconds like Kerry Fox in 'Intimacy' (2001). It is funny to note that after this film Loredana did many TV fiction for a family audience, and in Italy she's popular for this reason, if only they should see 'La Donna Lupo'... My vote is 5 (out of 10) just because of the shameless Loredana.
I watched a Russian edition of this movie with English dubbing but the audio was very poor, so I quick forwarded quite a bit. This review then is not going to be very fair or accurate. Parts of this film are filmed in somewhat of a documentary style, with the main actress, who is really the center of this movie, addressing the audience and talking about female sexuality and desires. These scenes are filmed in black and white. Also in black and white are erotic scenes that are fantasized by the male lead in which he imagines the woman as a stripper doing it with a panda teddy bear and a true life snake(!). The woman we learn is apparently a prostitute who sleeps with boys only once in various locations. The boys watch these black and white audition tapes of women and pick them accordingly. Invariably they fall in love with our star. At some mission there are scenes of horny guys getting involved with transvestites for some reason. Loredana Cannata, the main actress, is a pretty girl, the woman next door kind who now looks sexier when dressed. But we got to see her totally naked quite a bit. Although during a sex stage a body double is used for her. Some seconds of an oral sex stage are explicit, also she touches herself explicitly. But there does not seem to be any development in her story/life. It's more about the filmmakers using her life as a method to receive the audience to change their minds about female sexuality perhaps. There is some sort of twist near the end, when the film becomes a monologue of our star addressing the viewers. The main reason to see this film is the eroticism and Loredana is sexy but given that the filmmakers tried to receive the audience to think, the erotic scenes aren't particularly erotic. The film is slow going, there aren't any another females in this movie. The only "action" taking zone are the various men, and in particular the young lover, looking for the girl. There isn't really much to suggest here, unless you have to see Loredana Cannata naked.
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