Writer-director-star and co-producer Giada Colagrande's cherry bomb of a feature-film debut is the kind of sleazy European trifle — one part violence, two parts sex and a dash of philosophy on top — grind-house habitués once lived to discover. Lushly pretty prostitute Maria (Natalie Cristiani) and her apparently virginal 17-year-old sister, Catarina (Colagrande, who's actually in her late 20s), live a stiflingly insular existence in the small apartment where Maria entertains clients on a squeaky bed as Catarina turns up the stereo and buries herself in her studies. Maria, who raised Catarina from the age of 2, conducts herself more like a suffocating mo...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins