A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.
Production
The hotel itself—endless corridors, impossible geometry.
Cinematography
Soft-focus haze that makes sleaze feel like art.
Direction
Angelucci treats exploitation like an Antonioni film.
Director
Gianfranco Angelucci
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Italy's 'softcore with pretensions' wave, where directors used erotica to fund art-house ambitions. Angelucci was a journalist who interviewed Fellini before making this.
Clio Goldsmith quit acting immediately after; Catherine Spaak later called it 'the most embarrassing check I ever cashed.' The hotel was a real abandoned Roman palazzo scheduled for demolition.
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