Welcome to the social design: loose lessons from the stylized representation of the social in cinema and print. A blog very often about the interior design, fashion, social manners, and music created for and reflected in vintage cinema and print. Especially from the Sixties and Seventies, especially Italian, and especially from swingin' party scenes. We're awfully big on disco hippies and the OpArt accent here. Guaranteed, of course, to wander off on the occasional tangent into (maybe?) related subject matter, with plenty of tongue-in-cheek commentary for your consideration along the way. Comments are welcome, so please consider yourself invited...


Tuesday, January 11, 2011

COCKTAIL PARTY FROM "AMUCK" (1972)





#3:  WHEN ENTERTAINING, SPIKE YOUR GUESTS' DRINKS WITH PILLS AND PLAY WHIMSICAL PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS.

From the 1972 Italian Giallo thriller "Amuck", Rosalba Neri makes the scene again in her chic Op-Art separates. Yes, it's another decadent night in crumbling old Venice - in case you weren't sure, hubby spells it out clearly and overdramatically to the attendant Barbara Bouchet: "I'm just a composite of what they are... decadent, corrupt, lost in the myriad facades of a doomed city..." Good thing she's his secretary. You really do have to pay people to listen when you talk like that. Rosalba mixes up one of her signature cocktails: one part scotch, one part pill. Then it's on to a little dancing and a film.

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