Blue Jeans (1975)

The 1970s was a decade where the disco craze was in a fever pitch & fashion styles like the short shorts was queen! So, why didn't I find this movie directed by Mario Imperoli to be, as hot as movies featuring actresses Catherine Bach and Lyndis Carter in hot pants. Well, it's because, this erotic coming-of-age-comedy movie about a young free-spirited nymphomania drifter, Daniela 'Blue Jeans' Anselmi (Gloria Guida) falling in love for an older man, Carlos Anselmi (Paolo Carlini), who might or might not be her long-lost father is disturbing to watch. It's awful, because how shallow, the story is. There is barely any character development for the nearly unlikeable title character. I really thought the movie was going for a 2006's 'Black Snake Moan' tone of the film, where Carlos Anselmi would try to attempt to cure her of her extremely nymphomania sexual urges, however, it doesn't do that, instead, he fall from grace due to his & her temptations for sex, which destroy his life. The movie plays it off with the music, as if it's a good thing, but the truth is, It's was really depressing to see him separating himself from his friends and girlfriend, Marisa (Annie Karol Edel) to get closer to Daniela. Also, the character development of the two leads, falling in love comes out of nowhere, as they barely share anything together. Even the third act murder plot 'twist' with Sergio Prandi (Gianluigi Chirizzi) felt somewhat forced and rushed. The incest driven love story, was a risk that didn't payed off. I found myself, throwing up, than sympathize with them. Don't get me wrong, the actor playing the father is decent, but I was kinda glad for the tragic ending. It's just too bad, that Blue Jeans didn't died as well. I think the film was trying to go for a 1962's "Lolita' vibe, but all the graphic nudity really put the story in the backburner. It's shamefully exposed everything as if a glorified porno. It's might as well, because there is nothing is subtle or smart about this movie. It didn't even get it fashion sense, right. Gloria Guida barely wears blue jeans in the film at all. That's if, she wearing any clothes, at all. Don't get me wrong, Gloria Guida looks especially good naked, along with Annie Karol Edel. However, Guida was probably too voluptuous, at age 20 to be believable as a seventeen-year-old street hooker. I was really turn off, by the fact that she was playing an underage street hooker character that sleeps with ugly-looking senior citizens for money. It made the film, less sexy. Not only that but all the attempted rape, made it hard to watch. Also, what was the point of having scenes like Daniela taking a pee!? Are we supposed to find that erotic? How far, does this movie need to go for its perversion? Is the long opening ass sequence, not, good enough for the horny bastards; that we also need pointless scenes of Daniela interrupting two people having sex by stealing pajamas!? Also, what is wrong, with this movie, and using random shots that has nothing to do with the main plot!? Why were there, long sequences of Carlos buying Daniela's clothes, intercut with random people doing random chores!? I get that, the movie is trying to make it seem like the town folks are looking at how Daniela is, dressed, but some of the shots, the filmmakers use, clearly shows them, not paying any attention to them. The movie is full of stupid fillers like this. Scenes like Daniela exploring the castle and going to a local festival in Sermoneta and the Castello Caetani, went a little too long for my taste, even if it was beautiful shot in the style of cinematographer Romano Albani. In the end, the pacing was just bad. The English dubbing was just as awful. My DVD version was so crappy, that I just watch the English subtitles, instead. I have to say, this Italian movie is also not as funny as it should be. What could had been, a fun sex-rom comedy about a father trying to deal with his daughter's open sexuality, turn into awkward Electra complex that gave little laughs. In spite of that, the music by composter Nico Fidenco was excellent. The title song was also pretty catchy. Overall: While, the movie has a lot of nice T&A action, this contemporary Italian was far from being entertaining. I really can't recommended watching it.

Gloria Guida plays a teenage streetwalker nicknamed "Blue Jeans" because of the short-shorts(what's left of 'em anyway)that she always wears. After she is picked up on prostitution charge by the police, she claims to be the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy local artist--even though he denies it--and is sent to live with him until he is able to legally disavow his relationship to her. Much (alleged)hilarity ensues as she wanders around the house naked, antagonizes his live-in girlfriend, and disrupts his society parties. But then the movie takes a serious turn when her pimp boyfriend shows up and a murder plot is hatched.Guida, a former Miss Teenage Italy, appeared in any number of frothy Italian sex comedies in the mid-to-late 1970's ( i.e. "La Ragazzina, "La Liceale")and also a number of pot-boiler melodramas that were somewhat similar to, but mostly lacked the style of, Italian gialli (i.e. "So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious", "Perfect Crime"). This movie manages to combine both of these with a genuinely comical plot and a darker, more serious subplot. In that respect it's somewhat similar to Guida's most famous movie Ferdinand DeLeo's "Being Twenty", but it's not really a patch on that one. Guida was not really a great actress, but that was hardly the point--she looks good both in and out of her short-shorts (she gives a cheeky performance in more ways than one). She was often cast in these Lolita-type roles, even though she was probably too voluptuous to be believable as a seventeen-year-old when she WAS a seventeen-year-old (several years before this movie was made). There is also the added perversity of the incest angle: Is the man really her father? Is she going to have sex with him anyway? If you have seen any of these 70's Italian sex comedies you can probably guess the answer, but rest assured it's NOT the most perverse possible permutation.The dubbing is awful. The title song is wretched. The actor playing the father is decent, and his "older" girlfriend is a pretty good side-dish to Guida, but the "pimp" role is laughably filled by an Italian pretty-boy who is about as un-threatening as they come. The movie is not very funny,on one hand, and pretty damn hard to take seriously, on the other. It really only has the delectable Gloria Guida to recommend it-- but, you know, that just might be enough.