Guglielmo Zorzi (director/writer)
Ferdinando Martini (cinematographer)
Marco Prega (author)
Italia Almirante-Manzini (lead)
Ubaldo Stefani (lead)
Rina Pirani (lead)
Marcello Giorda (lead)
Memo Benassi (lead)
Silentium (production)
When a count who lives as a widower with his adult daughter and son takes in a housekeeper and her joyously unrestrained youthful daughter (aptly named “Vivian”), he struggles with the simmering conflict between his urge for his imagined pleasures of forbidden fruit and his duty to maintain an appearance proper to his class - while working around the girl's crush on his son - which leaves him looking both pathetic and ludicrous. Part One is wonderfully carried by the tension between the lively naturalistic character of the girl and the subdued degeneration of the count (much like Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962)), that climaxes in the title's tempesta. Too bad Part Two devolves into a routine melodrama that goes on too long, saying nothing.
Bu Wan-Cang/蔔萬蒼 (director/writer)
Huang Shao-Fen/黃紹芬 (cinematographer)
Ruan Ling-Yu/阮玲玉 (lead)
Jin Yan/金焰 (lead)
Wang Gui-Lin/王桂林 (lead)
Li S.Y./李時苑 (lead)
Lily Chow Lee-Lee/周麗麗 (lead)
Liu Ji-Qun/劉繼群 (lead)
Lianhua (production)
Naive but willing farm girl falls for rich but dysfunctional adult crack baby who calls her 'chaste' but treats her like a slut. But the affair is opposed by his strictly orthodox but stoned-out junkie mom in this clichéd but engaging hyper-tragicum that proves that contradictions are the spice of life.
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