Libido

Yeah.

I remember us talking about, uh, Gustavo's Libido, saying that it needed a proper release, and Severin came through with ours.

Radianz obviously has fairly recently given us The Double-

Mm-hmm

She won the case eventually, but by then her standing in Hollywood was finished, so she relocated to Rome in 1967, learned Italian, and began again, and Deborah was among the first films she made once there.

The conspiratorial structure at the heart of The Sweet Body of Deborah didn't originate with this film either.

Gastaldi had already tested it in Libido, his own directorial debut, which we covered back in episode 12, I believe, which involves a man who stands to inherit a remote villa on condition that he can be proven sane and finds himself apparently gaslit by his wife and a rival acting in concert.

And many people, including ourselves, Peter, have drawn the line back to Clouzot's Les Diaboliques on Libido for much the same reasons we're drawing again here.