Two Males for Alexa

Original title: Fieras sin jaula

1971
1h 27m

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

319

YOUR RATING

Curd Jürgens in Two Males for Alexa (1971)

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When a young woman enters an extramarital affair, her older husband - the father of her university friend - exacts revenge by committing suicide and trapping her and her lover in his mansion... Read allWhen a young woman enters an extramarital affair, her older husband - the father of her university friend - exacts revenge by committing suicide and trapping her and her lover in his mansion with no means of escape.When a young woman enters an extramarital affair, her older husband - the father of her university friend - exacts revenge by committing suicide and trapping her and her lover in his mansion with no means of escape.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

319

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Apart from its different opening titles obliterating shots of Paris streets, prudish Spanish version provided alternate clothed scenes whenever actress Rosalba Neri appeared naked in the Italian version.

Goofs
On Montmartre, Pietro appears to adjust the position of his subject's chin in order to better draw her face, but all he has actually been doing the entire scene is scribbling around the edges of an already completed portrait.

Quotes
[first lines]
Ronald Marvelling: Alexa!
[dies]

Alternate versions
Running time stated here is 1:27 minutes. There is an abbreviated 1:18 minute version that cuts most of the intimate physical interaction between Alexa and Pietro, except the featured dance scene. There are both Italian and Spanish versions that begin with street scenes of Paris under the titles. There is also a Spanish version which begins with extended shots of Alexa and Pietro on the water under the credits.

Soundtracks
The More I Love You, I Love You More
(uncredited)
Music by Piero Piccioni
Sung by Shawn Robinson

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Review

Featured review

9/10

Marginally a giallo but completely surreal

Not only is Two Masks For Alexa an unsatisfactory title for what I have as Two Men For Alexa, or this site has as, Fieras Sin Jaula but somewhere along the line the numeral 2 has become inserted on another site and made this title almost impossible to find. Mind you the film is difficult to find as well. I digress. Marginally a giallo but completely surreal, this really is an undiscovered gem. The beginning strikes as either incredibly bad or intoxicatingly good depending how you react to what seem like totally unconnected sequences crashed together without a thought and completely different colour stock seemingly being used. Then gradually as we become used to the human triangle within the story and the many, many flashbacks, some crazy sort of logic establishes itself before, way before halfway, there is a real surprise and the film appears to be at an end. But no. Everybody is great, including the lovely, Rosalba Neri and Curt Jurgens, the music is fine and the direction...let us say, unusual. If you have any interest in Italian movies of the early 70s, seek this out. Did I mention Ms Neri and her wonderful and numerous costumes!