Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (1971)

	Also Known As: Una lagarta con piel de mujer, Lizard in a woman's skin
	Year of first release: 1971
	Director: Lucio Fulci
	Actors: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel
	Country: I, E, F
	Genre: Polar, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 10.08.2016, DVD, strange original version
Synopsis: Carol (Bolkan) is daughter of a prominant English politician and keeps having recurring "nightmares" in which she makes love to a bisexual nympho who lives downstairs and conducts all-night LSD orgies. When the nocturnal wet dreams become murderous, the neighbor turns up dead. Did she actually commit the murder she dreamt about? Is she being framed by her philandering husband? Did she actually make nightly visits downstairs? Her husband (Sorel) and the Inspector Corvin (Baker) investigate.
Review: The last ingredient of the Giallo type (see La ragazza che sapeva troppo and Sei donne per l'assessino) is introduced in that movie, the music. Ennio Morricone composed for this one as for many other Gialli. And the movie gets a texture that is going even deeper in the skin. The music combined with the abstract images or dialogues. The story is full of surprises. Even if the Giallo concept is kept. Carol is the woman in a nervous breakdown. The calm husband and father balance the acting. The story made me have kind of affection for Carol and then more suspiscion for her. The mix of feelings with the different characters, also the father and the husband, is a great success of the movie. I found the red room very inspiring and it reminded me the experience of Twin Peaks by David Lynch.  As often in my DVD for Gialli, the original version is not that clean as Italian and Spanish get mixed. And obviously few actors are talking Italian. Maybe it is the reason why the acting focuses more on the face and body expression than on the way the dialogues are told, as they are told anyway by another person.
Rating: 5 /10