Deadly Sweet
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| Directed by | Tinto Brass |
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Il sepolcro di carta by Sergio Donati |
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| Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
| Cinematography | Silvano Ippoliti |
| Edited by | Tinto Brass |
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Col cuore in gola (lit. With Heart in Mouth) is a 1967 giallo film directed by Tinto Brass. It is loosely based on the novel Il sepolcro di carta (lit. The Paper Tomb) written by Sergio Donati. The film used storyboards from cartoonist Guido Crepax. It has been released under several titles including Deadly Sweet and I Am What I Am.
A French actor named Bernard (Jean-Louis Trintignant) comes across a beautiful young woman (Ewa Aulin) bending over the corpse of a murdered nightclub owner in London. He believes her that she is innocent of the crime, and runs off with her to protect her from a group of criminal types who are stalking her.
Col cuore in gola was adapted from the paperback novel Il sepolcro di carta (1955) by Sergio Donati. Brass noted he was not very fond of the novel, and his producers wanted Jean-Louis Trintignant as the lead. On meeting Trintignant, he told him a different story than that of the novel which lead him to accept the role. Brass had then sent over the actual script stating that he had changed his mind. The films working title at this point was Enigma.
Brass did later change the plot, moving the story location from Rome to London noting that "London represented what Paris had represented before it: the place of transgression and freedom. Lots of things were happening. The Beatles were only one of them. It was Europe's liveliest urban center." Brass expressed that he "wanted to make a film in ideograms-like in Chinese writing, where a symbol indicates a whole concept. So I did not film a horse but an eye, or a spur. The characters seem two-dimension, as in a comic." In 1966 director Tinto Brass contacted Guido Crepax to draw the storyboards for the Cuol cuore in gola. Crepax created color storyboards even though he was used to working in black-and-white. For the cinematographer, Brass noted that his previous director of photography Bruno Barcarol had died and he needed a new one. Brass later chose Silvano Ippoliti as he reminded him a bit of Barcarol. The film was Brass' only giallo film, and was influenced by the pop art movement. This is seen in Trintignant's characters home which is decorated with older and popular Hollywood actors and the use of split screen matting to have the look similar to that of a comic strip. The film also switches between black-and-white and color, which Brass later explained was done out of necessity than any artistic statement, noting that some scenes required more light than the crew was able to provide which led to scenes filmed in black and white.
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