La fille de Trieste

Wretched movie. A middle-aged man's fantasy, some beautiful young girl and her madness appear principally so that the aging self-satisfied male lead can have an important and intriguing emotional upheaval. Not quite as egregious as Jean-Claude Brissau's Les anges exterminateurs, where the poor misunderstood put-upon director believes he should be loved by angels because of the importance of his libido, but not far off.

Ornella Muti is excellent though, deploying a lot of skill to rise above the material.

The background music is awful. At least the subtitles (in the version I saw) can't be blamed on the director. They appear to have been done by machine translation.