Blue Movie

IMDb's synopsis for Blue Movie: 'A woman escapes from being raped only to find herself trapped by a sado-masochistic photographer who, among other nasty things, gets off on consuming fresh human excrement.'

How could I resist?

That's not a rhetorical question. I seriously need to learn how to resist watching worthless arthouse garbage like this. Too many times I've been tempted by the controversial nature of a movie, only to be bored to tears by its pretentiousness. I must find a way to be more discerning - I could have been watching another gory Italian zombie film or sleazy giallo instead of wasting my time with this sorry mess, which consists of one nonsensical scene after another, all told in the most tedious fashion imaginable.

Admittedly, the film does deliver on the promise of transgressive content - there's about two seconds of a model jerking off the photographer, a nanosecond of graphic sex, some documentary war footage, and a scene in which a woman smears herself from head to foot with her own poo (which looks suspiciously like chocolate mousse) - but the vast majority of the film is the polar opposite of 'eye-opening': it'll have you struggling to keep your eyelids from closing.

1/10. There are many far better things to do with your time.

As difficult to review as it is to view this is one hell of a bizarre movie. Not to be confused with the Warhol movie, this is from Alberto Cavallone and is probably aiming at the same sort of sub art house audience, or as it was in the late 70s. Extreme and confusing, this begins with happy hippy outdoor romance which rapidly becomes a prolonged rape sequence but all shot in such a way as we are disorientated from the start. This dream/nightmare pattern continues as first this first victim then another are sort of taken in by a photographer, of sorts. he has once taken photos of war torn events and seems to have become traumatised by these images which we see in occasional montage in much degraded quality. In a similar way he 'looks after' the women and seeks to similarly degrade them while he skips about taking crazy photos of bent up soft drink cans. When vomit and excrement join the menu we gather things will not end too well.

Normally, I pride myself on having an open mind. I also tend to like most surrealist films especially those by Arrabel, Jodorowsky, Bunuel, Pasolini and Peter Greenaway. However, I can't find anything at all to like nor recommend in this sleaze-fest. I have to say too that I tend to enjoy sleaze if it's at least entertaining. This film was not at all entertaining. About 45 minutes into the film, I was ready to call it quits. Even as thinnly plotted as this film seemed to be, characters wandered in and out without any rhyme or reason making the whole thing very confusing.

Even though Pasolini's SALO had it's periods of revulsion, at least I felt like I got something out of it at the end to make the time I spent in disgust, somewhat worthwhile. I can't say the same thing here. The films only raison d'etre that I could see was to show as much degradation upon women as possible and for no reason. Well, there was a reason, but after a while I just didn't care any more.

BLECH!!! 1/10

A woman escapes being raped by two men and finds sanctuary with a professional photographer. He seems harmless enough but after a while it is apparent that he has some perverse desires. She also finds herself having some dark dreams and desires.

Something that I watched out of mild curiosity than any real interest. Turns out my lack of interest was well founded.

Despite its semi-provocative content, the film is quite dull. For the most part it just drifts and there is very little substance to it. Even the steamy side is pretty tame, especially by today's standards. It might well have been explicit in the 1970s but its now generally quite moderate.

"Blue Movie" is a bizarre and extremely obscure exploitation film obviously inspired by Dusan Makavejew's "Sweet Movie".There is no real plot to speak of,just plenty of surreal moments and nudity.Still there are some coprophagia scenes that will surely leave some viewers disgusted.The film is loaded with symbolism(the nude toys and dolls)and the use of Bach on the soundtrack is a nice touch.The stock footage of war atrocities is definitely disturbing,unfortunately the film is rather dull.The acting is amateurish and there is no gore,so fans of Italian horror will be disappointed.However if you like experimental transgressions or obscure Italian cinema give this notorious piece a look.5 out of 10.