1970 · giallo · blackmail · erotic
The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
Directed by Luciano Ercoli1h 33m1970
The wife of a financially struggling businessman is blackmailed by a mysterious man into having a sadistic relationship with him, or he will release damning evidence that suggests that her husband is a murderer.
Our read: The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive giallo · blackmail · erotic entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured giallo / blackmail, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
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