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Summer Temptations
Summer Temptations
Provocazione
1988 ·82 min ·Italy ·R 18+
6.5
IMDb 4.6 КП 5.4
Drama
Director: Piero Vivarelli
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In a villa on an island (St. Peter) a little out of season, inhabit Vanessa, a young widow, and stepdaughters Kikki and alive. Vanessa had married their father above all because it was very rich. After her husband's death, Vanessa decided to keep him Alive and Kikki and also call Roberto, her former lover, now a professor with the aim of preparing the two girls to the maturity examination. Shortly after his arrival, he establishes an atmosphere heavy with half-empty Island the villa that seems almost a luxury prison do understand immediately that the stepmother and stepdaughters will hate and despise each other.

Moana Pozzi
Actor
Marino Masé
Actor
Petra Scharbach
Actor

Provocazione is characterized as an engaging, albeit morally cynical, piece of European genre cinema. While it avoids explicit tropes, it relies on a familiar narrative structure centered on manipulation and themes of greed, bolstered by striking visual and musical choices.

Cinematography The cinematography is visually striking and serves as a standout technical achievement for the film.
Score The musical score is competent and effectively contributes to the film's specific atmosphere.
Acting Moana Pozzi delivers a strong and skillful performance that transcends her typical genre associations.
Screenplay The screenplay is viewed as a familiar, unoriginal plot that relies on cynical character archetypes.
Ending The ending remains a point of contention, with some viewing it as an engaging, unresolved mystery and others finding it potentially unsatisfying.
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