After the favourable reception showered on his first feature film, Libera, in which he successfully combined post-modernism and folkloristic charm, Neapolitan director Pappi Corsicato's encore leaves something to be desired.

Set somewhere in the south of Italy, its structure is again episodical, but instead of separating between stories, as he did the first time around, the various plots blend together in a less than satisfactory whole.

It is all about an impotent young man whose only means of reaching sexual satisfaction is to peep at prostitutes with their clients. The prostitutes are physically or emotionally crippled, but they are all miraculously cured in a traumatic finale whose shock value is supposed to restore the healing powers of love.

All this is to be taken as an observation on social and moral frigidity, bathed in indifference and perverted by human imagination.

Unfortunately, realism and fantasy don't really mix in Corsicato's film, and finally neither is fully exploited. The film is a disappointment for those who expected the director to become a major voice of the Italian south and proves once again that a second film is more of a challenge than the first one.

Umberto Rossi, FIPRESCI

Prod co: Filmauro

Prod: Aurelio de Laurentiis

Dir/scr: Pappi Corsicato

Ph: Italo Daniele Petriccione

Ed: Nino Baragli

Prod des/costumes: Pappi Corsicato

Music: Pappi Corsicato

Sound: Candido Raini, Roberto Tomaselli

Cast: Iaia Forte, Vincenzo Peluso, Marinela Anaclerio, Manuela Arcuri

Running time: 97 mins

Int sales: Filmauro

Screenings: 23 June, 20.00, Blanik; 26 June, 12.00, Lucerna; 28 June, 17.30, KCP-Koncertní

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