The marriage between Andrea (Rossano Brazzi) and Barbara (Maitena Galli) is near the end, beyond the saving that a vacation to Istanbul can provide. Yet they go anyway, along with his assistant Sylvia (Sylva Koscina), to a villa whose last tenant, a sculptor named Claudine, hung herself. The housekeeper Fatma (Güzin Özipek) keeps secrets, like how she practically worships the dead woman. Speaking of secrets, Sylvia and Barbara have some of their own, as they have begun their own relationship away from the impotent surgeon husband, who is convinced people are trying to kill him. Also, as this is a fantastic, Claudine’s spirit finds her way to Sylvia.
The last part of the title of this movie — Il sesso del diavolo—Trittico — refers to a triptych or threesome. The film is filled with different versions of three together, such as the couple that arrives at the villa, a past indiscretion and maybe even a new one.
Directed by Oscar Brazzi and written by Sergio Civinini and Paolo Giordano, this film gets the most out of its setting, along with a soundtrack by Stelvio Cipriani that takes its inspiration — well, we can just say taglia e incolla — from Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.”
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