The Girl from Cortina

The Girl from Cortina

1994 · 93 min · ★ 4.0 · Thriller

Vanessa Gravina is vapidly pretty as the heroine, who changes her hair color and hair style in order to escape an abusive painter husband and start a new life. She fakes her death by motorcar accident off a cliff, and the film heads downward from there, as surely as the vehicle plunges towards the Gothic waves-crashing-on-rocks below, set on the Greek island of Hydra.

Directed by Giancarlo Ferrando · Written by Maurizio Rasio

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