A Lustful Mind (1986) User Reviews

Oh Joe

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 12 December 2021]

Based on the book Luxure by Judith Wexley - which probably doesn't exist - this movie is about how a rich young man named Alessio has lost his voice after his mother dies and he goes to live in the country. Meanwhile, his dad (Al Cliver) gets remarried and still finds the time to sleep with Alessio's aunt and an art restorer.

As for our protagonist, well, he's indulging in the fantasy that it's him instead of his dad.

There are only five actors in this and one location*, the very definition of a low budget. That said, Lilli Carati (The Pleasure, To Be Twenty) acquaints herself well. Neither of the other two actresses, Noemie Chelkoff and Ursula Foti, ever did anything else.

Also known as Lust, this is one of the few Italian movies I've seen where restoring art doesn't lead to demons killing everyone in their way.

*It's a great location, the Villa Parisi in Frascati where Hatchet for the Honeymoon, Blood for Dracula, Homo Eroticus, Patrick Still Lives, The Murder Clinic and many other movies were filmed.

Excellent.

[alexferdman222 · 8/10 · 29 October 2014]

Yes, I own two different copies of this flick with two different ending in two different languages. Yes, this movie is about private life and it mixes up reality and imagination and in my book its excellent mixture. After all our actions are based on our brain work and the results are mostly don't rolling out as expected. Most of the movie we can only guess why everything happens the way it does and this is how it normally happen in real life. If you happen to have different opinion about this you are entitled exactly like me. As usual D'Amato not capable go far enough in sex department but considering 50 years later nobody does I figured all movies making will be stuck in eleven's century mentality for some time and I not hoping to find something better.

Dull and repetitive Euro-sleaze from the legendary Joe D'Amato.

[Infofreak · 7 April 2002]

'Lust' is a very odd, and unerotic slice of Euro-sleaze. Alessio, a young man seemingly traumatized by the death of his mother, is struck mute. His father, who has subsequently married a prostitute, sends him to his Aunt's country estate to recuperate. While there, Alessio voyeuristically spies on various erotic encounters between his Aunt, his stepmother, his father, and an attractive young girl employed to restore art in the house he is staying at. Interspersed with the "action" Alessio has recurring obsessive erotic fantasies involving all three women. Is there a secret behind hid inability to speak? Is it somehow connected with his fantasies? And what does his mother's death have to do with it? Watch this movie and you tell me, because I haven't got a clue! Director D'Amato has a thriving cult following, but I'm certain it has absolutely nothing to do with this movie!