Col cuore in gola
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Directed by | Tinto Brass |
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Cinematography | Silvano Ippoliti[1] |
Edited by | Tinto Brass[1] |
Music by | Armando Trovajoli[1] |
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Running time | 107 minutes[1] |
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Col cuore in gola (lit. 'With Heart in Mouth'[2]) is a 1967 giallo film directed by Tinto Brass. It is loosely based on the novel Il sepolcro di carta (The Paper Tomb)[2] written by Sergio Donati. The film used storyboards from cartoonist Guido Crepax. It has been released under several titles includingDeadly Sweet and I Am What I Am.[2]
Plot
A French actor named Bernard (Jean-Louis Trintignant) comes across a beautiful young woman (Ewa Aulin) bending over the corpse of a murdered nightclub owner in London. He believes her that she is innocent of the crime, and runs off with her to protect her from a group of criminal types who are stalking her.
Cast
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Bernard
- Ewa Aulin as Jane
- Vira Silenti as Martha
- Roberto Bisacco as David
- Charles Kohler as Jerome
- David Prowse as a gangster (uncredited)[2]
Production
Col cuore in gola was adapated from the paperback novel Il sepolcro di carta (1955) by Sergio Donati.[3] Brass noted he was not very fond of the novel, and his producers wanted Jean-Louis Trintignant as the lead.[3] On meeting Trintignant, he told him a different story than that of the novel which lead him to accept the role.[3] Brass had then sent over the actual script stating that he had changed his mind.[3] The films working title at this point was Enigma.[2]
Brass did later change the plot, moving the story location from Rome to London noting that "London represented what Paris had represented before it: the place of transgression and freedom. Lots of things were happening. The Beatles were only one of them. It was Europe's liveliest urban center."[3] Brass expressed that he "wanted to make a film in ideograms-like in Chinese writing, where a symbol indicates a whole concept. So I did not film a horse but an eye, or a spur. The characters eem two-dimension, as in a comic."[3] In 1966 director Tinto Brass contacted Guido Crepax to draw the storyboards for the Cuol cuore in gola.[3] Crepax created color storyboards even though he was used to working in black-and-white.[3] For the cinematographer, Brass noted that his previous director of photography Bruno Barcarol had died and he needed a new one.[4][5] Brass later chose Silvano Ippoliti as he reminded him a bit of Barcarol.[5]
Release
Col cuore in gola was released in Italy in 1967 where it was not a commercial success.[1][5] It has been released in France under the titles Le cœur aux lèvres and En cinquième vitesse (lit. 'The Fifth Gear').[2]
The film was shown in the United States in Portland, Oregon on 7 September 1969.[6] The film was released in the United States as I Am What I Am on the Cult Epics label.[2][5]
See also
References
Footnotes
Sources
- Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.
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