Peccati di gioventù (1975)

So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious… was directed by Silvio Amadio, who also made the giallo movies Assassination In Rome, Amuck!Smile Before Death and Twisted Girls, as well as Il Medium. He also wrote the story with Roberto Natale.

Also known as Sins of Youth, this tells the story of Angela (Gloria Guida, Bollenti spiriti), a young, beautiful and vicious girl who lives to sunbathe, party and spend her father’s money. But then she learns that her daddy (Silvano Tranquilli) has found a new wife, Irene (Dagmar Lassander). They’re even talking marriage, which worries Angela, because Irene seems to have morals. That means that her endless party seems to be coming to an end. But Angela is willing to go as low as it takes to stay her father’s favorite girl.

This is also — also also? — known in Germany as Sun, Sand and Hot Thighs and that makes it seem like a beach sex film. And yes, Guida is naked for most of the movie. But she’s also scheming the whole time, getting Irene to fall in lust with her while someone documents their entire love scene and sends it off to her father. Yet it seems like Irene and Angela are as much alike as they are different; as Jane says in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, “Then, you mean, all this time we could’ve been friends?” — but when you feel a love for a father that is beyond what any other woman could know, well, you’ll do anything to stay solitary in his heart.

You can watch this on YouTube.

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