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Actually, I haven't seen this movie. But I own a copy of the soundtrack, which is a real curious psychedelic sixties item. The sleeve indicates that this is a movie about trendy youngsters in Venezuela 1968, with pictures of actress Nancy Ramos and actor Carlos Morean. The music is what makes you curious about this titel. It is a mix of cinematic cool-jazz, typical of new-wave films from the sixties worldwide, Caracas salon music and psyched-out acid-rock by The Love Depression. The disc itself is in all colours of the rainbow and shines through. It might as well be a dull skin-flick from Venezuela, marketed through the fashion of the time, but something tells me that you should see this film if there's an opportunity (I will!).

This picture is utterly weird. Between unbelievably dull scenes (filmed without any inspiration) we find some of the most extraordinary scene's ever. It uses characters and idea's that were known at that time (and are therefore not introduced), but since comics like Crepax' Valentina are sinking to obscurity, girls who are actually birds and a monster of Frankenstein who whips a couple while they are standing above a field of sharp pins aren't daily routine. I was lucky to find a copy on VHS, so it exists!

This film should be well-known, but isn't. It is in many ways the typical sixties Japanese pop-film, combining the best of nouvelle vague (hand held camera, cool-jazz score, moody, young characters) and the Japanese exploitation cinema (lots of violence, sex and rape). It is unknown, probably because of it's raw content. The main line - girl falls in love with the small time criminal who raped her - isn't to the taste of the western public, but is actually handled in a subtle matter. I've seen this one on Something weird video.