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The Washing Machine (Italian: Vortice Mortale) is a 1993 film directed by Ruggero Deodato. It was based on the play La Lavatrice by Luigi Spagnol.

The Washing Machine
Directed byRuggero Deodato
Screenplay byLuigi Spagnol[1]
Story byLuigi Spagnol[1]
Produced by
  • Corrado Canzio
  • Alessandro Canzio[2]
Starring
CinematographySergio D'Offizi[1]
Edited byGianfranco Amicucci[1]
Music byClaudio Simonetti[1]
Production
companies
  • Esse Cinematografica
  • Eurogroup Film
  • Focus Film[1]
Release date
  • 1993 (1993)
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
  • Hungary [1]

Plot


Inspector Alexander Stacev is called to the house of three sisters, Ludmilla, Vida and Maria after Ludmilla claims to have found the dismembered body of Vida's pimp boyfriend Yuri inside their washing machine. When he arrives and finds no body he tells them there is no case, putting it down to a drunken hallucination. The sisters think otherwise and follow and pester him about the disappearance of Yuri, luring him into their strange world.


Cast



Production


The Washing Machine was based on a stage play La Lavatrice by Luigi Spagnol.[2] It was shot in Budapest.[2] Deodato described the film as being "made precariously" and without distribution.[3]


Release


The Washing Machine was released in 1993 and did not find distribution in Italy.[2] The film was released on home video in Holland as The Washing Machine.[4] The Washing Machine was released in 2014 on DVD in the UK by Shameless Screen Entertainment. [5]


Reception


From retrospective reviews, Adrian Luther Smith in his book on Italian giallo found the film to be "one of [Deodato]'s better films" and that Claudio Simonetti's score was "one of the best in recent years."[4]

Deodato gave different reactions to the film in different interviews. Once stating he wasn't happyp with the film stating the casting was wrong and that the film "was made too quickly… I can only say that I am not at all pleased with the final result because it's a very intimate movie and should have had well-known actors, which it does not. So, after the first few minutes it collapses."[6] While in another, stating Deodato describing the film as "interesting" and that it was an "erotic-giallo, with a horror tinge to it" and having a Rashomon-theme throughout withs characters having different points of view.[3]


References


  1. Luther Smith 1999, p. 125.
  2. Curti 2022, p. 378.
  3. Ercolani 2019, p. 231.
  4. Luther Smith 1999, p. 127.
  5. "THE WASHING MACHINE". Shameless-Films. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  6. Fenton 1999, p. 112.

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