So Sweet... So Perverse

{{Infobox film | name = So Sweet...So Perverse | image = So Sweet...So Perverse.jpg | alt = | caption = Italian theatrical release poster | native_name =  | director = [[Umberto Lenzi]] | producer = {{plainlist| * Jacuqes-Paul Bertrand * Mino Loy * [[Luciano Martino]]{{sfn|Howarth|2015|p=111}}}} | writer = | screenplay = [[Ernesto Gastaldi]]{{sfn|Howarth|2015|p=111}} | story = | based_on =  | starring = {{plainlist| * [[Carroll Baker]] * [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]] * [[Erika Blanc]] * [[Horst Frank]]}} | narrator = | music = [[Riz Ortolani]] | cinematography = [[Guglielmo Mancori]]{{sfn|Howarth|2015|p=111}} | editing = [[Eugenio Alabiso]]{{sfn|Howarth|2015|p=111}} | production_companies = {{plainlist| * Zenith Cinematografica * Flora Film * Tritone Filmindustria Roma S.r.l. * CEDIC * [[Rapid Film]] GmbH<ref name="filmportal">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/film/cosi-dolce-cosi-perversa_f4057a2092bc4faf89a931eb69a35f58|publisher=[[Filmportal.de]]|access-date=July 30, 2017|title=Così dolce... così perversa}}</ref>}} | distributor = [[Variety Distribution]] | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1969|10|31|Italy|1971|2|26|France}} | runtime = 92 minutes<ref name="filmportal" /> | country = {{plainlist| * Italy * France * West Germany<ref name="filmportal" />}} | language = Italian | budget = | gross = }}

'''''So Sweet... So Perverse''''' ({{langx|it|Così dolce... così perversa}}) is a 1969 [[giallo film|giallo]] film directed by [[Umberto Lenzi]] and written by [[Ernesto Gastaldi]], starring [[Carroll Baker]] and [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]]. Set in Paris, it tells the story of a wife who plots to get rid of a rich and errant husband but is herself the victim of her accomplices.

==Plot== Jean, a wealthy industrialist in Paris, has married Danielle, but she now refuses him. In revenge, he lets himself be seduced by the host's wife at a party. Closer to home, an attractive woman moves into the flat above them, and they sometimes hear an abusive lover rebuke and beat her. Jean combines chivalry and desire by offering to protect her, and soon they are lovers. She is Nicole, and her violent ex is Klaus. She warns him that Klaus will seek to kill him, which happens during a fight. His charred body shows up in a burnt-out car.

Nicole, who in fact is Danielle's lover and accomplice, announces that Jean had given her his share in his company. Danielle begins to be haunted by guilt and, while she is on the phone with Nicole, Klaus creeps in and shoots her dead. In the absence of any better explanation, the police inspector reluctantly accepts suicide. Now rich and no longer at risk of exposure by Danielle, who had hired them, Nicole and Klaus get on a plane for Brazil. Two seats behind them is the police inspector.

== Cast == * [[Carroll Baker]] as Nicole Perrier * [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]] as Jean Reynaud * [[Erika Blanc]] as Danielle Reynaud * [[Horst Frank]] as Klaus * [[Helga Liné]] as Hélène Valmont * [[Beryl Cunningham]] as a stripper

==Production== Following the release of ''[[Orgasmo]]'', director [[Umberto Lenzi]] and actress Carroll Baker worked again on another ''[[giallo]]'' film.{{sfn|Howarth|2015|p=111}} The script by [[Ernesto Gastaldi]] borrows plot elements from [[Henri-Georges Clouzot]]'s film ''[[Les Diaboliques (film)|Les Diaboliques]]'' (1955) and like many ''gialli'' of the era, revels in its portrayal of badly-behaved, wealthy protagonists.{{sfn|Howarth|2015|p=111}}

[[Riz Ortolani]] provided the music score, which includes a ballad called ''Why?'' sung by [[J. Vincent Edward]]. It would be later re-used in Lenzi's film ''[[Seven Bloodstained Orchids]]''.{{sfn|Luther-Smith|1999|p=110}}

==Release== ''So Sweet...So Perverse'' was released in Italy on October 31, 1969, and in France on February 26, 1971.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804020619/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/kiss-me-kill-me-v27527/|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/kiss-me-kill-me-v27527/|publisher=AllMovie|title=Kiss Me, Kill Me|access-date=August 3, 2017|archive-date=August 4, 2012|last=Firsching|first=Robert}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=71297&_ga=1.152810361.1953939938.1427925026|publisher=Bifi.fr|title=Cosi dolce, cosi perversa (1969) Umberto Lenzi|language=French|access-date=July 31, 2017}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

===Sources=== {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Howarth|first=Troy|title=So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films|publisher=Midnight Marquee Press, Inc |date=2015 |isbn=978-1936168507}} * {{cite book|last=Luther-Smith |first=Adrian|date=1999|title=Blood and Black Lace: The Definitive Guide to Italian Sex and Horror Movies'|publisher=Stray Cat Publishing Ltd.}} {{Refend}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0064186}} * {{TCMDb title|id=53021}} * [https://www.varietydistribution.it/en/catalogue/so-sweet-so-perverse/ ''So Sweet... So Perverse''] at [[Variety Distribution]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:So Sweet So Perverse}} [[Category:1969 films]] [[Category:1969 crime thriller films]] [[Category:Giallo films]] [[Category:1969 Italian-language films]] [[Category:Films directed by Umberto Lenzi]] [[Category:Films scored by Riz Ortolani]] [[Category:Films with screenplays by Ernesto Gastaldi]] [[Category:1969 Italian films]]