Review of What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) by Carlos I — 05 Jun 2017
A series of nubile schoolgirls are brutally slaughtered for reasons that evade the police. A young professor (Fabio Testi) has the key to solving the mystery of who the murderer is, but his situation is complicated since he witnessed one of the killings while on a extramarital excursion with one of his students (Christina Galbo).
What Have You Done To Solange has an appropriately tense score from Ennio Morricone and suspenseful direction by Massimo Dallamano, but some of its thematic motifs left me cold. The narrative of the movie criticizes teenage girls for open sexuality, but it also fetishizes them when they're tortured, sexually violated, and murdered.
This may be the prudish American in me talking, but I found the bluntness of this dichotomy (as well as the creepy endorsement of "innocent virginity" in young women) to be unsettling in ways that the film didn't seem to consciously intend.
This review of What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) was written by Carlos I on 05 Jun 2017.
What Have You Done to Solange? has generally received positive reviews.
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