Night Hunger

Impossible love, toxic romanticism, sex addiction... these are the pillars on which Damiano builds a well-written story (perhaps one of his best works, although forgotten), well-directed (providing different textures depending on the narrative), and very well-acted (aside from its explicit sexual roles) by a really great cast that offers realism and drama in equal parts.

A young man (a Jerry Butler who plays a strictly dramatic role, and from which he comes out on top) enters a village bar in the Deep America, where the bartender immediately starts a conversation with him, and tells him the story of the Blair family, whose mansion drags along all kinds of legends, especially related to the hypersexuality of its members throughout the last three generations.

When the boy says goodbye, after having gathered the information he was looking for, he goes into a phone booth to inform Damiano himself (Mr. D.) who, in an unusual cameo, then shows us the beginning of the filming of his new movie, of course related to the report on the young man and the Blair family. His conversation with Candida Royalle (the other cameo) borders on misogyny, and is an example of the prevailing sexism of the time.