Ondata di calore

Nelo Risi's "Dead of Summer" is the story of one woman's rather too elegant (for my tastes) descent into lunacy, set in midsummer, mostly in a dazzlingly chic modern apartment that is isolated in the same, exotic North African landscape in which André Gide's "Immoralist" found liberation and Paul Bowles's existential bank teller attained swift, sweet nothingness. [...] -VINCENT CANBY, New York Times, March 10, 1971 (Vincent Canby, New York Times)