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Directed by SALVATORE SAMPERI...
Screenplay by SALVATORE SAMPERI, OTTAVIO JEMMA and ALESSANDRO PARENZO...
...power of movie promotion to cloud perceptions or the number of people who find sadism funny has been seriously underestimated. But viewers who bear the title firmly in mind-it means "malice" and is as accurate as they come -may derive a creepy sort of pleasure from Director Samperi's adroit study in perversity...
...slightly higher plane, one cannot help admiring Samperi's creation of a claustral atmosphere that makes believable both the boy's fetid sexuality and the girl's inability to escape his trap without destroying herself and his father. That she finally manages to do so, by reversing their roles, is also accomplished without suspension of belief. It even seems rather courageous and psychologically acute...
GRAZIE ZIA is a flashy first film by young (25) Italian Film Maker Salyatore Samperi. His theme is moral and spiritual decadence, and his style is already accomplished, but the film is too repetitious and vague to be entirely satisfying...