Avere
vent’anni (To Be Twenty) – (the title refers to the famous phrase at
the beginning of Paul Nizan’s book, Aden Arabia: I was twenty years
old. I will never allow anyone to say that these are the best years of
my life.), was shot by Fernando di Leo in 1978. He also wrote the
script which dates back to some years earlier and came from the desire
to portray new female characters who had established a revolutionary
psychology, and attitudes in society after 1968.
The intermediaries for
this story are two young travellers, Tina and Lia - played by Lilli
Carati and Gloria Guida, both very popular actresses at that time, who
leave the Italian provinces and go to Rome to join a “community” and
are under the illusion of being able to live in complete freedom,
especially sexual freedom, without restraints or limits.
They end up
being faced with the crudest and fiercest reality. The film, which
maintains a comedy tone most of the time, in actual fact distinguishes
itself by the terrible and bloody ending, where the two girls meet
their death at the hands of a group of yobs. This unpredictable ending
(it is so violent that during the shooting the actresses fainted)
disappointed the audience and the distributors. The film was almost
immediately removed from screening, cut, re-edited and then shown in
theatres with a new “consolatory” ending – the home video version also
underwent further transformations.
Di Leo had also written a sort of
perfect sequel to the film which was never made, with Guida and Carati
as the main characters again, but set in the 1940’s: “Quello che
volevano sapere due ragazze perbene”, (What two well-to-do girls wanted
to know).
| Regisseur |
Genre
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| Fernando
di Leo
|
Erotiek, Exploitation |
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| Land |
Jaar |
| Italië |
1978 |
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| Label |
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| Raro
Video |
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| DVD info: |
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| Regio |
Beeld |
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Anamorphic
(16:9) Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio |
Ondertitels |
| Italiaans |
Engels |
| - |
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| Extra's |
|
- Documentaire ‘Twenty
Years for a Massacre' (Italiaans met Engelse ondertitels)
- Fernando di Leo Bio
(Engelse en Italiaanse text)
- Filmography
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