While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
From memory: A movie, just as sleazy as its plot line suggests, gets an artsy treatment, so there a few good set pieces, but generally it's quite a disappointment.
Halliwell (no star): "Interminable catalogue of events few people wanted to experience; the kindest description would be 'pretentious claptrap'."
Maltin***: "Initially dazzling tale......becomes ponderous when it turns into a mother-son soap opera with incestuous implications. Cinematically exciting, though, with a bravura finale."
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