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LA DONNA INVISIBILE [THE INVISIBLE WOMAN] (1969)

La Donna Invisibile is an Italian drama film written and directed by Paolo Spinola and starring Giovanna Ralli and Carla Gravina. Ralli plays Laura, whose relationship with her husband Andrea (Silvano Tranquilli) has deteriorated to such an extent that she feels she can see through her body, almost as though she does not exist. Although she is deeply in love with him, all his attentions are directed towards Delfina (Gravina), another woman who lives at home with them. As time passes, Laura starts to question her own sanity, and wonders whether she has become entirely invisible.

Morricone’s score for the film is one of his more subtle ones, presenting a series of relaxing lounge music jazz tracks for orchestra, vocals, and jazz combo. The score often makes use of bossa nova, samba, and Euro-pop beats and grooves, giving it a very 1960s style, but it’s very richly textured, often just presenting simple repeated chords in a calm, relaxing manner . It’s also quite clever in the way he often uses little piano and string motifs that just sound a little off-kilter, not quite right, alluding to the rather precarious mental state of the protagonist Laura.

The title cue “La Donna Invisibile,” is gentle and softly romantic, but a little bittersweet, offering strings, piano and a jazz combo featuring a prominent muted trumpet. “Ritratto d’Autore” picks up a more contemporary guitar-led bossa-nova vibe, which plays an interesting staccato piano theme with a very clever, slightly anxious edge. “Silenziosamente” is almost hypnotic in the way it explores the simple music relationship between strings and a plucked bass. “La Moda” is a soft rock/pop intrumental with some terrific writing for trumpet and Hammond organ. The great Edda Dell’Orso lends her unmistakable voice to the seductive trio “In Un Sogn Il Sogno,” “Alla Serenitá,” and “Un Bacio,” the second of which is actually the film’s main title.

The whole thing is very appealing, and definitely enjoyable, but also very typical of his mid-1960s romantic style, and won’t offer anything particularly new or unique to anyone familiar with his other works of the period. The best soundtrack release of score is the one released in 2000 by Dagored, which takes the original 10-track vinyl LP program, and adds four bonus alternate cues, taking the running time to just under an hour.

Track Listing: 1. La Donna Invisibile (6:46), 2. Ritratto d’Autore (5:04), 3. Silenziosamente (3:15), 4. Eros Profondo (4:08), 5. In Un Sogn Il Sogno (3:18), 6. Mille Ricordi (3:07), 7. Alla Serenitá (5:24), 8. La Moda (3:30), 9. Un Bacio (5:55), 10. Incontro Trasversale (5:06), 11. Ritratto d’Autore (Alternate Version) (5:29), 12. Alla Serenitá (Titoli – Movie Version) (1:53), 13. La Moda (Alternate Version 1) (2:24), 14. La Moda (Alternate Version 2) (2:48). Dagored RED109-2, 58 minutes 07 seconds.

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