Cristi_Ciopron Review of Desiderando Giulia

Desiderando Giulia (1986)

Exquisite, graphic, shocking, explicit, awesome

[10/10 · 12 January 2009]

DESIDERANDO GIULIA is intensely graphic, melodramatic, quite violent, intense and eerie—not at all idyllic or satiric –a strikingly original and uncompromising, uncanny erotic drama—and truly better than most of anything else; it was the first Italian erotica that I have seen, and perhaps the best, and certainly the most intensely original, violently crazy. Mrs. Grandi is utterly fabulous, gorgeously young and depraved, destructive ,cruel, the slum, popular version of the femme fatal—shockingly vulgar, extremely convincing as a bitch—another performance of womanish force, evil, malice, vulgarity, cruelty, the same very true combo of a dominatrix' force, and forced submission, and wild independence and _instinctuality—the role to be seen in MIRANDA as well. This shameless girl was 27 when she undressed in Desiderando Giulia (1985)—she looked slightly mellower ,didn't she? GIULIA is, artistically, the most interesting and firmly handled Italian erotica.