"Kreola" shows how an interesting plot can be mortified by a void director and a pack of vacant inexpressive actors. It is neither a refined erotic story nor a generous and explicit hardcore. In its basic essence, it is a presumptuous movie that doesn't keep what could be its main promise: to tell a story of women charmed by a sort of erotic spirit of the place. But don't look for any kind of dereglement de tous les senses or the like. In "Kreola" you'll find only fluttering breasts and awkward sex scenes interrupted at right moment. Nothing else.
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Kreola
BandSAboutMovies2 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Kreola (Demetra Hampton, who played comic book character Valentina in the Italian TV series) has come to Santa Domingo to see her photographer husband Andy (Teodosio Losito). He's already worried about her having eyes for Marco (Marco Carbonaro), but then the real trouble happens. Marco is looking for Iris (Cristina Rinaldi, P. O. Box Tinto Brass), who has fallen under the spell of a craggy old seafarer named Leon (John Armstead, Errore Fatale).
Kreola is supposed to try and lure the old man into her arms so that Andy can take back Iris, but she ends up falling in love with the sea captain too. As Jo Ann (Cinzia Monreale, probably pleased to be in a movie where Lucio Fulci or Joe D'Amato isn't killing her), a writer, explains, the islands are where foreign women lose all inhibitions and leave their men.
Sadly, after two movies of Antonio Bonifacio that I really liked - Olga O's Strange Story and Scandal In Black - I was let down by this. It seems to really go nowhere and I was hoping for at least some turn to the giallo after seeing that Daniele Stroppa wrote it. Instead, it's lifeless.
Kreola is supposed to try and lure the old man into her arms so that Andy can take back Iris, but she ends up falling in love with the sea captain too. As Jo Ann (Cinzia Monreale, probably pleased to be in a movie where Lucio Fulci or Joe D'Amato isn't killing her), a writer, explains, the islands are where foreign women lose all inhibitions and leave their men.
Sadly, after two movies of Antonio Bonifacio that I really liked - Olga O's Strange Story and Scandal In Black - I was let down by this. It seems to really go nowhere and I was hoping for at least some turn to the giallo after seeing that Daniele Stroppa wrote it. Instead, it's lifeless.
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