Jealous Eyes was directed by Bruno Gaburro (Malombra, Fashion Crimes), who its OK to be jealous of yourself because he was once married to Erika Blanc. It was written by Roberto Leoni (who wrote Santa Sangre the same year and also was the writer of American Rickshaw and My Dear Killer).
Also known as Blue Chill, this is an erotic thriller in which Chris (Donald Burton) loses a friend and moves into his apartment to compose a song in memory. That means that he's blowing his sax at all hours of the day and night, so this movie has not just 80s sex sax but also straight up saxophone. He meets Eva (Dalila Di Lazzaro, who is the female monster in Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and also shows up in Frankenstein 80, which is pretty much all it takes to get me obsessed; she's also the headmistress in Phenomena) and he can put away his sax - am I getting paid for using that word so much or is this a search engine optimization trick? - and start hearing it on the soundtrack as they start having some adult naptime. Have hot pudding for supper. Moistening the Pope. You know. The sex.
She claims that her husband Senator Verani (Gérard Manzetti) and her stepson - who this being an Italian movie, she is also sleeping with - are busing her and that Chris needs to kill them both. Look, when you just start dating someone and pillow talk turns to "you need to kill for me," you are in a giallo. Or a neo-noir. Or an erotic thriller. As you can imagine, when they are killed, Eva tries to get him to confess to the crime. But ah, perhaps she tried the same thing with his friend. And doesn't he have a song to write?
Gaburro edited footage from this movie and Alcune signore per bene into 1993's Rose rosse per una squillo (Scandalous Liasons). This is how I get into these gialli rabbit holes, because I just read what Alcune signore per bene is about: "Sexual infidelity, blackmail, murder and suicide plague a fashion house and its nymphomaniac owner..." And it has Eva Grimaldi and Florence Guérin in it? Time to start looking.
Also known as Blue Chill, this is an erotic thriller in which Chris (Donald Burton) loses a friend and moves into his apartment to compose a song in memory. That means that he's blowing his sax at all hours of the day and night, so this movie has not just 80s sex sax but also straight up saxophone. He meets Eva (Dalila Di Lazzaro, who is the female monster in Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and also shows up in Frankenstein 80, which is pretty much all it takes to get me obsessed; she's also the headmistress in Phenomena) and he can put away his sax - am I getting paid for using that word so much or is this a search engine optimization trick? - and start hearing it on the soundtrack as they start having some adult naptime. Have hot pudding for supper. Moistening the Pope. You know. The sex.
She claims that her husband Senator Verani (Gérard Manzetti) and her stepson - who this being an Italian movie, she is also sleeping with - are busing her and that Chris needs to kill them both. Look, when you just start dating someone and pillow talk turns to "you need to kill for me," you are in a giallo. Or a neo-noir. Or an erotic thriller. As you can imagine, when they are killed, Eva tries to get him to confess to the crime. But ah, perhaps she tried the same thing with his friend. And doesn't he have a song to write?
Gaburro edited footage from this movie and Alcune signore per bene into 1993's Rose rosse per una squillo (Scandalous Liasons). This is how I get into these gialli rabbit holes, because I just read what Alcune signore per bene is about: "Sexual infidelity, blackmail, murder and suicide plague a fashion house and its nymphomaniac owner..." And it has Eva Grimaldi and Florence Guérin in it? Time to start looking.
