Jennifer gatta di piacere

The end of an era

Regrettably, following the brilliant "Signore scandalose di provincia" (1993) and the two sensational, highly salacious installments of "Betty Blue" in that same year of 1996, Alessandro Perrella—aka Alex Perry—has dropped onto the home video market this unmitigated piece of trash called Jennifer gatta di piacere. In it, the goddess Anita Rinaldi is supposed to play the "gatta", yet there is neither hide nor hair seen of her until a half-hour into an insipid runtime where both masculine—and plot—flaccidity become painfully obvious for the remainder of the film. The movie heavily abuses close-ups and slow-motion; the former merely to splice together a contextless erotic sequence later on, and the latter to drag out sparse, lackluster facial ejaculations. It leaves the dreary impression of a director already burnt out, and an actor lineup dead on their feet from sheer routine. Anything went in the ill-fated digital video market to land us in the barren landscape we find ourselves in today.