A pizzeria, a dead loan shark, and a sadist walk into her life — Italian melodrama goes feral.
Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homosexual brother, Flavio, open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another one of her boyfriends, Settimio. While visiting Settimio in jail, she meets a sadistic man named Furio, and they begin a relationship.
Acting
Valeria Marini commits fully to Bambola's operatic desperation.
Direction
Bigas Luna's fetishistic gaze turns bodies into landscapes of excess.
Costume
Every outfit screams 'I have a complicated relationship with money and men.'
Director
Bigas Luna
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