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Incontro d'amore

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  • 1h 30m
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5.3/10
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Incontro d'amore (1970)
DramaMysteryRomance
Glenn and Carlo are in the beautiful and exotic island of Bali where they work on writing a photo book. Glenn is in the grip of a mystical crisis, influenced by the magical rituals of the pl... Read allGlenn and Carlo are in the beautiful and exotic island of Bali where they work on writing a photo book. Glenn is in the grip of a mystical crisis, influenced by the magical rituals of the place, converted to Hinduism.Glenn and Carlo are in the beautiful and exotic island of Bali where they work on writing a photo book. Glenn is in the grip of a mystical crisis, influenced by the magical rituals of the place, converted to Hinduism.
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
95
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    • Paolo Heusch
    • Usmar Ismail
    • Ugo Liberatore
  • Writers
    • Fulvio Gicca Palli(story)
    • Pier Giuseppe Murgia(story)
    • Ottavio Alessi(story)
  • Stars
    • John Steiner
    • Laura Antonelli
    • Umberto Orsini
    • Paolo Heusch
    • Usmar Ismail
    • Ugo Liberatore
  • Writers
    • Fulvio Gicca Palli(story)
    • Pier Giuseppe Murgia(story)
    • Ottavio Alessi(story)
  • Stars
    • John Steiner
    • Laura Antonelli
    • Umberto Orsini
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    • 4User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    John Steiner
    John Steiner
    • Glenn
    Laura Antonelli
    Laura Antonelli
    • Daria
    Umberto Orsini
    Umberto Orsini
    • Carlo
    Petra Pauly
    • Brigitte
    Johannes Schaaf
    Johannes Schaaf
    • Bradford
    Ettore Manni
    Ettore Manni
    • Commissario
    Widyawati
    • Glimuk
    Mila Karmila
    • Ilsak
    Fifi Young
    • Bali Woman
    Ida Bagus Njana
    • Tillem
    Renato Spera
    • Reverend
    Tjokorde Gde Agung Sukowati
    • Tjokorde
    Carla Mancini
    Carla Mancini
    Tjempaka Blanco
    • Bali Man
    Ilona Staller
    Ilona Staller
    • (added footage in 1975 version)
    • (as Elena Mercury)
      • Paolo Heusch
      • Usmar Ismail
      • Ugo Liberatore
    • Writers
      • Fulvio Gicca Palli(story) (screenplay)
      • Pier Giuseppe Murgia(story) (screenplay)
      • Ottavio Alessi(story) (screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Ilona Staller's debut.
    • Alternate versions
      Alfredo Bini, who had had experience with his Bora Bora (1968) film, bought the rights to the film from the producers who were frustrated with the box office of Bali, wrote additional scenes for Umberto Orsini and a new character featuring Ilona Staller in Rome, with new director (Paolo Heusch) and cinematographer (Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli), and re-edited the film entirely, with several scenes cut to keep the running time circa the 90 minute mark. The film was re-released as Incontro d'amore, only, though some posters show this title superimposed to the earlier Bali title.
    • Connections
      Referenced in I Am Self Sufficient (1976)

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    8/10
    Absurdly entertaining hoodoo-voodoo on Bali!
    The unwieldy triumvirate of, Ugo Liberatore/Paolo Heusch/Usmar Ismail have fashioned a rather unusual celluloid confection in Bali. Part-murder mystery, part-existential melodrama, part-metaphysical erotica, and part-exotic travelogue, that ultimately proves somewhat less exciting than the lurid promise of its exploitative parts! The bloody, Giallo-esque murder at the beginning engenders the rather clunky conceit of ostensible wife-slayer, Carlo (Umberto Orsini), and his heady Bali-bound tale of marital infidelity, Balinese hoodoo-voodoo, and the existential woes of the preternaturally sulky, blonde Adonis, Glenn (John Steiner), who, unsatisfied with his two dusky Asian wives, finds the satiety he desires among the pulchritudinous, sun-warmed bosom of Carlo's voluptuous wife, Daria, distractingly played in a curiously somnambulist fashion by the super-sexy, Antonelli, who does little more than mope, and look inordinately delicious in her snug black bikini! Which, as you might well imagine, is more than adequate compensation for her emotional inertia, and weirdly vapid stare!!!

    Again, highlighting the cogent plot, or lack thereof, or even mentioning the spurious motivation of the undeveloped characters does, Ugo Liberatore's episodic film no good at all, it is, perhaps, far better to immerse the noggin with suitably robust libations, and then glory at the sun-slaked bounty of gleefully giddy nonsense herein! The story is pure bunkum, and is best enjoyed if taken with an enormous pinch of hallucinogenics, but, miraculously, all Bali's myriad faults do finally coalesce into a remarkably entertaining yarn!!?? Exhibit A) it is all wholly, and unrelentingly absurd and B) The location and photography of the impossibly beautiful island paradise of Bali is sensational; and C) (a jolly good C it is too!) maestro, Giorgio Gaslini's scintillating score is lushness personified, pouring sweet honey over the steamy proceedings like a sublime application of warm, slippery coconut oil across the magnificently burnished busts of Italian screen dream, Laura Antonelli!
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      • December 29, 1970 (Italy)
      • Italy
      • West Germany
      • Indonesia
      • Italian
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      • Bali, Indonesia
    • Production companies
      • Gerico Sound
      • International Film Company
      • Roxy Film
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
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