Domino (1988)

Director:

Ivana Massetti

Writers:

Gérard Brach (writer)
Ivana Massetti (writer)

Release Date:

October 1988 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

She lives... to play the game of love.

Plot:

A girl in the video industry travels with a jeweled turtle and makes Billie Holliday videos. Though having relations with some of her friends...

Plot Keywords:

Surrealism | Erotica | Character Name In Title

Cast

Brigitte Nielsen	...	Domino
Tomas Arana	...	Gavros
Kim Rossi Stuart	...	Eugene
Stéphane Ferrara	...	Paul Du Lac
Cosimo Fusco
Pascal Druant	...	Victor
Cyrus Elias	...	Alex
Geretta Geretta	...	Gabriele (as Geretta Giancarlo)
Yves Jouffroy
Lucien Bruchon
Antonella Tinazzo	...	Marie
David Warbeck	...	Blind
Daniela Azzone
Sheila Constantini Folli	...	Alice
Joy Garrison	...	Billie Holliday

Runtime:

UK:97 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Taurus Entertainment Company

An arty woman has the art of love.

Okay, let's set the record straight: this film was made in the mid 80's when Music videos were still rare and female film directors were even rarer. After the original Director had to drop out, Ivanna Massetti was given the picture. She was a well-respected commercial director in France and this film was her directorial debut. Using the techniques learned from esoteric commercials and music videos she gambled and lost in attempting to tell the story of "DominoÓ visually without much connective narrative. It simply didn't work. But attempting to tell a story without dialogue is still something Directors attempt today, twenty years later, and still fail. The storyline was acutally of a woman named DOMINO, a successful but jaded video director, who having lost the ability to love searches first through her friends and then Paris-by-night trying to find something, anything to teach her to love again.

As regards this being "soft porn" at no time did Ms. Massetti intend or attempt to make this a "soft porn" film. Remember this was Europe where showing nudity doesn't mean it's "porn". And especially not back in the 80's. As regards Ms. Nielson; it's true she doesn't appear very attractive in this film. Which really hurt the film as you need to believe how beautiful this Domino woman is. Her appearance was due to being over weight from a pregnancy. A pregnancy that she lost during the shooting of the film. The film was shut down for two weeks while she recouped.

First time Director, attempts to break the laws of narrative storytelling, a miscarriage during the film shoot and a very nasty and very public divorce from Slyvestor Stalone... Is any of this an excuse why the film isn't that good? Maybe not... To the hard hearted of you out there.