A mentally disturbed woman arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence, and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.
Acting
Taylor's final fragility weaponized into something terrifying.
Direction
Griffi's fragmented timeline mirrors Lise's dissolving psyche.
Costume
That rainbow dress: desperate cheerfulness as death flag.
Director
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Elizabeth Taylor
Lise
Ian Bannen
Bill
Mona Washbourne
Mrs. Helen Fiedke
Luigi Squarzina
Lead Detective
Maxence Mailfort
Pierre
Anita Bartolucci
Saleswoman
Marino Masé
Lorenzi, Traffic Policeman
Dino Mele
Police Captain
Quinto Parmeggiani
Detective
Nadia Scarpitta
Elderly Lady at Airport
Beppe Cino
Police Commissioner (as Cino Giuseppe)
Maurizio Bonuglia
Detective
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taylor's own life—recently divorced, struggling with pills, financially squeezed—bled into Lise's desperation. Method acting via autobiography.
1974 Rome: Years of Lead beginning, terrorism normalized. Lise's private violence mirrors Italy's public unraveling—Griffi makes the political personal.
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