Movie review: Private Tropical 31 "Sensual Healing" (2006) (Diane Bold, Leanna Wet, Janet Toy, Sahara Knight)
Dizzying images greet us with a song that reminds us of the opening bars of the original version of “Xscape” the main discard from Michael Jackson's Invincible album. In this speedy beginning a couple runs and the camera accentuates the getaway with short shots and sudden movements.
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A danger stalks them, but the spectator, who empathizes out of curiosity, still does not know what it is due to. We are facing a movie that is named after a famous Marvin Gaye song, dating from 1982. A song that predisposes us to treat this Max Bellocchio movie well.
Darkness is closing in on them
Rambo IV
In addition, they are not sure that in their forward flight they will notrun into other armed enemies. In the end, they decide to hide on the porch of a shack, to think a little more calmly about how to escape from the village. Suddenly, and without warning, everything stops, and the expletives in French from a heated gentleman bring us out of reverie. We were on the set of an action movie and the two protagonists of the scene are safe: they are not pursued by Burmese organ traffickers ... and all the nervousness is gone in an instant.However, the director of the film is not much friendlier than the supposed guerrillas and treats them with disdain and shrieking gaunt shrieks.
Putain le merde!
Director Jean Pierre gives instructions screaming loud because the actors have not understood the script. The tension conveys that they have several failed attempts when filming this scene. Discouragement is rife among the staff.
The cameraman lowers his head
Jean Pierre cannot speak English and it doesn't take long for him to realize that he is screaming and is not managing to communicate with the rest of the team, so he gives way to his translator, that looks like the ex cyclist Cadel Evans, who emphasizes his words much less, calming down the discussion.
Time for il traduttore
When it seems that he has calmed down, he demands that the blonde actress come to try to shoot the scene and illustrate the beginner, but the translator reminds him that today he has the day off just like the villain in the feature film.
And the blonde?!
Work is postponed until the next day, where it will be necessary to get up early to continue with the complicated filming. The translator grabs Jean Pierre by the arm and tells him that the best thing is to really relax in a spa with a happy ending. You cannot live in a permanent state prior to a heart attack.
Keep calm brother...
The mentioned blonde does not take long to enter the scene, and we see that she has found love among the acting cast. She and Mike make out on the magnificent beaches of Madagascar, their feet wet from the waters of the Indian Ocean.
The blonde girl is in another shooting...
Minutes later, the protagonists of the opening scene that has made the director so nervous, talk eaten up by rage on the sand of the beach. They haven't even taken off their movie attire because anger doesn't let them think clearly.
"Mobbing everyday, Victorio"
The young actress, Shade, says she can't take it anymore and that she's going to call her London agent to buy her a ticket back. Victorio, confused, recalls the scene of the helicopter that they recorded a few days before and in which he almost broke his legs. Not even with that commitment and dedication, the director is satisfied!
It is the calm after the storm, where regrets dominate the situation. It reminds us of the final part of Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, when the soldiers, having reached the objective, reflect on the means used in the fray.
Rearguard soldiers
Meanwhile, Jean Pierre, the director, is relaxing in the spa in the company of the translator and a slim brunette. According to his philosophy, it is necessary to gather strength to continue treating employees like New Orleans cotton slaves.
Spa for three
Before dark, the blonde reappears at the resort where the film crew is staying and greets the cameraman, Hans, in a friendly way. It is palpable in the environment that there is complicity and that they have a pending task.
Most wanted
Hans, cameraman and psycologist
Hans does not lie to her and tells her that the director was very pissed off that she was not on the set, even though she had the day off. He adds that, after that anger, he sent them all home, and that Pablo, the translator, summoned them the next day at 7:50 am.
Nosy Be, Andilana Beach
Andilana Beach nowadays
Sunset in Africa
The next morning, shooting continues on this strangely scripted action movie. The soldier who was running through the indigenous village now shares a canoe with an explosive blonde, exploring the island. Everyone has been ready at the set time, with the aim of starting filming on time.
Six days, seven nights
Terminé! C´est ter-mi-né!
When everything seems to be going smoothly, the director gets upset for no apparent reason and with a series of expletives in the diplomatic language par excellence, French, attacks his entire acting team. Not even the pointer is saved.
After the string of bad words, he leaves the beach at a steady pace before the astonished gaze of all those who got up early that morning to spend only 10 minutes working.
The last straw comes early
The cameraman needs to relax.
The filming is now a funeral and Victorio gets out of the boat and approaches Pablo trying to find answers, since he and the director are quite friends. Pablo recognizes that the director has a problem of mental disorder and that this hurts everyone around him. The veteran actor threatens the translator with leaving the film and returning to Italian national television, where he has many pending jobs; Victorio has worked with Alessandro Santos, Max Fontaine among others, and he cannot bear these humiliations.
"I'll do what I can, Victorio" (that is, nothing)
On the Italian national television that Victorio mentions, they treat employees better
Yacht in Indian Ocean
Hans knows how to relax well and he does it on a luxurious catamaran. There they introduce him to a Caucasian tourist, who asks for his help to be able to participate in the film. The cameraman elegantly declines the invitation, arguing that the sun is very strong during the central hours of the day.
Amazing movement
Continuing with the bullfighting slang, what he asks is that Mike throw him a cape, claiming that he is the main actor in the film and that he has greater access to the director and his plans for the film and the staff.
I want to be a conventional film actress ...
Filming continues despite the fact that the actors and actresses are more concerned with having fun than learning the script and now it is the turn for the most important scene of the film. We can imagine how nervous the unbearable director will be.
This scene is "tres important"
Good directors try to breathe the intensity of the scene into the actors
In theory, today was a day of photography, not filming, and the director Jean Pierre was a little out of place and did not realize that the cameraman Hans is having a party. Faced with the situation, he leaves the translator, the actors, the screenwriter, the photographer and the make-up artist standing up. What a scene to kill.
Screaming loud and louder
The translator Pablo tells Victorio that this director is not in his right mind, since he had given the camera a day off. The entire staff is on the verge of starting a riot and it is very close to erupting.
The director leaves them standing, one more time
Hans, oblivious to the umpteenth discussion, is relaxing on the beach with one of the actresses. He just wants to disconnect from the scenes and the filming, and yet his director gets angry with each of the unforeseen situations that come his way.
All wrong
Then, Victorio has an epiphany and decides to speak with Shade to try to find a solution: he tells him that he has spoken with Hans and his assistant and they have informed him that there is a shaman near the city and that he has the power to change personality of the people. The idea is to take the director to him but the problem is that he does not want money, but has other plans in mind and she is an essential part of the contract.
The best plans are organized in the garden ...
"He doesn't give a damn about money ..."
Despite her initial reservations, she accepts on the condition that the story does not transcend anyone from the rest of the shoot ... Everything must be done to finish filming as soon as possible and return to Europe immediately.
But filming a movie requires employees and actors committed to the project, and again Victorio tries to shoot a scene with a native, which the director is not very convinced, given his manifest lack of acting skills ...
12 years a slave
But ... where did you get this one from?
The director demands that they cut! because the scene is being fatal, due to the terrible actress ... Victorio excuses himself claiming that he is not a production director and that they have found that local actress, not him ... Again, filming is on hiatus. ..
Pablo, the translator, asks the cameraman, Hans, to accompany him to look for decorative objects in the beach shops. It is all so improvised that it is very evident that the director Jean Pierre lacks experience.
I need a shower, bro
"The shaman wants to see you in action, Shade"
Victorio takes advantage of the recording pause to put some pressure on the girl, so that she goes to visit the shaman once and for all. It is the only option they have, although she still has many doubts about it.
These white sheets will help us ...
Shops at Andilana Beach
Looking for objects for the props, Hans tells Pablo that Mike made an emergency casting, but that the last interview of the young blonde actress is still missing. Pablo will be in charge of carrying out the selection test in focus group mode.
Mike has signed a new actress, friend ... but the last interview is missing
A few hours without the director and it can already be seen in the tan and in the smiles ...
Victorio and the actresses take advantage of the break from filming, during which the last interpreters are being signed, to criticize director Jean Pierre. They complain about your approaches, how you use lighting, and your attitude.
Incredible African landscapes
The next day, everything is ready on the tropical beach for an action scene in which you have to jog through the wet sand. Everything is prepared in detail and it only remains to record the moment.
Hazard in Real Madrid.
There is a saying that "a skinny dog is all fleas" and now Victorio has been injured in the middle of the scene, stepping on a small hollow on the seashore.
Jean Pierre does not accept one more setback ...
A sprain is not my fault
They have tried to avoid the inevitable, but now is the time to go visit the shaman, to please him and thus accept to carry out the exorcism ... It is the only solution to this filmic nonsense shot in paradise.
The time has come, honey
She said yes
Give me the anesthetic, Victorio
With everything organized, before sunset, Victorio gives Pablo the anesthetic that the shaman has given him, once he is pleased, so that they can put it in Jean Pierre's coffee or infusion. The next day he will not remember anything and they will be able to carry out the exorcism that will change the insufferable mood that he has been showing for a long time.
The shaman
Shaman in action
The shaman got down to business, but only after he had enjoyed watching Shade unleash his charms. Now he is performing the exorcism on Jean Pierre before the attentive and incredulous gaze of the actors in the film.
Deniers pose
Magic in Sexual Healing
And if necessary I do the RCP
Jean Pierre is so absent that he looks like a corpse, but the shaman is not at all fearful. It is part of the soul cleansing process and the director's aura is becoming more pure and respectful of his peers.
Free from anger, like a 2 month old baby
It is well born to be grateful
When the shaman disappears from the scene, all the actors approach Jean Pierre and lift him up in a very well filmed scene, with divine and religious overtones. Max Belocchio has managed to emulate the scene of Tyler Durden, in which he is badly injured after facing Lou, the owner of the bar where illegal fights are organized.
The resurgence
And this is how I met Tyler Durden
"El expolio" painting of El Greco
Phoenix bird
His name is Robert Paulson... His name is Robert Paulson
Sometimes, in the tropical saga we can enjoy happy endings and, in this case and against all odds, the exotic method of the shaman has been truly useful and the viewer verifies its effects in the last scene of the film.
Victorio, total star of the film, is much more focused
Beautiful scene
Action!
Shade "hands of brick"
Patience has to be put to the test, because otherwise you don't know if someone really has the virtue of self-control. In this case, Shade's necklace that Victorio gives him falls off, but this time Jean Pierre, instead of festering, approaches carefully and does his bit so that the good atmosphere reigns in the rest of the shoot.
Jean Pierre, the new kind man
Bisous!!
Happy ending, but in a film with a rather weak script for what is usually common in the tropical saga. The cast is delivered, but the story has no depth at all and some narrative coherence is missing. It will not be one of the Max Bellocchio films that go down in celluloid history. At least Jean Pierre is very happy and this is evident in his smile.
Happiness in his face
The last scene happens in this house. Link to Google Maps
THE END
RATING: 1/10
Info:
Private Tropical 31 "Sexual Healing"
Year: 2006
Film genre of the plot: comedy
Destination: Nosy Be, Madagascar
Actors: Sebastian Zarrio, Peter Benis, Boroka Calls, Oliver Sangus, Franco Trancedancer, Diana Bold, Janet Toy, Leanna Wet, Sahara Knight
Where can I find it: Private or Google
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