Lara Wendel (Laura) on the other hand has made some semi-successful films with directors like Federico Fellini, Umberto Lenzi, Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento. Martin Loeb, the young actor who played Fabrizio, made just one film after Maladolescenza, and then disappeared into obscurity. Eva has starred in almost 50 movies since her breakthrough in Maladolescenza. Again something that would be impossible and quite possibly illegal today, but hardly worth any notice in the mid-70's.
Since age 5 she had posed for her mother in many of the photographs she was nude, and in her early teens many of the photos bordered on all-out erotica. Daughter of French photographer Irina Ionesco, Eva was no stranger to nudity. Maladolescenza marked the rise to semi-stardom for the young Eva Ionesco. All of the sex scenes are - of course - simulated, but there is plenty of nudity, something that a lot of people for some reason have always had problems dealing with. Completely impossible to make in today's sexuohostile (hey, I just made that word up!) society, Maladolescenza is one of very few movies that deals with teenage relationships and doesn't shy away from the more physical aspects. Fabrizio is smitten by her and starts tormenting Laura, and as summer draws to an end, his cruelty gets more and more intense and the movie progresses towards the inevitable conclusion.Īlright, so what's so controversial about it then? Well, you could just as well ask what's so controversial about a softcore porn flick starring 12-year olds, because that's basically what Maladolescenza is.
So far so good, but this is where a mysterious blonde girl, Silvia (Eva Ionesco), enters the picture. We see glimpses of a sadistic side of Fabrizio, but Laura forgets all about it after she finally makes love to Fabrizio in an old ruin. They live on the outskirts of an idyllic forest and spend a lot of their time playing games in the forest, games that hint at the budding sexuality and the uncomfortable tension between the teenagers. The film starts out by letting us follow two young teens, Fabrizio and Laura (Martin Loeb and Lara Wendel) and seeing how their relationship develops. The story is simple, and it is not because of an especially elaborate script that the movie has become so legendary. You can take your uncut Aftermath, Emmanuelle in America or Island of Death - they pale in comparison.
As far as controversial movies go, there simply are none more legendary than the elusive Maladolescenza (aka Spielen wir Liebe and Puppy Love).
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