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L'angelo della vendetta

Titolo originale: Ms .45
  • 1981
  • VM14
  • 1h 20min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,8/10
13.577
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Zoë Lund in L'angelo della vendetta (1981)
Abel Ferrara’s (Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York) 1981 revenge thriller classic Ms. 45 follows a mute garment-district seamstress – played by the late model/actress/musician/screenwriter Zoë Lund – who after falling victim to multiple unspeakable assaults, ignites her one-woman homicidal rampage against New York City’s entire male population. Now remastered in HD from the original negative materials, Ms. 45 returns to theaters this December and debuts on DVD and Blu-ray uncut for the first time in North America.
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Una sarta timida e muta diventa pazza dopo essere stata attaccata e violentata due volte in un giorno nelle strade di New York City. Ora sta sparando a uomini con una pistola calibro .45.Una sarta timida e muta diventa pazza dopo essere stata attaccata e violentata due volte in un giorno nelle strade di New York City. Ora sta sparando a uomini con una pistola calibro .45.Una sarta timida e muta diventa pazza dopo essere stata attaccata e violentata due volte in un giorno nelle strade di New York City. Ora sta sparando a uomini con una pistola calibro .45.

  • Regia
    • Abel Ferrara
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Nicholas St. John
  • Star
    • Zoë Lund
    • Bogey
    • Albert Sinkys
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,8/10
    13.577
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Abel Ferrara
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Nicholas St. John
    • Star
      • Zoë Lund
      • Bogey
      • Albert Sinkys
    • 112Recensioni degli utenti
    • 93Recensioni della critica
    • 62Metascore
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    Zoë Lund
    Zoë Lund
    • Thana
    • (as Zoë Tamerlis)
    Bogey
    • Phil
    Albert Sinkys
    • Albert
    Darlene Stuto
    • Laurie
    Helen McGara
    • Carol
    Nike Zachmanoglou
    • Pamela
    Abel Ferrara
    Abel Ferrara
    • First Rapist
    • (as Jimmy Laine)
    Peter Yellen
    • Burglar
    Editta Sherman
    • Mrs. Nasone
    Vincent Gruppi
    • Heckler on Corner
    Stanley Timms
    • Pimp
    Faith Peters
    • Prostitute
    Lawrence Zavaglia
    • Arab
    Alex Jachno
    • Chauffeur
    Jack Thibeau
    Jack Thibeau
    • Man in Bar
    Jane Kennedy
    • Seamstress
    Jayne Kennedy
    Jayne Kennedy
    • Seamstress
    Wayne Caro
    • Office Boy
    • Regia
      • Abel Ferrara
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Nicholas St. John
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    7Real_Review

    Female Empowerment Gone Bad. An Exceptional Film. Shocking, Sexy, Violent.

    Step 1: Watch Ms .45

    Step2: Read the Wikipedia page for Zoe Lund

    Step 3: Watch Ms .45 again, now that you know a little about her. Amazing.

    RealReview Posting Scoring Criteria: Acting - 1/1 Casting - 1/1 Directing - 1/1 Story - 1/1 Writing/Screenplay - 1/1

    Total Base Score = 5

    Modifiers (+ or -) Originality: 1 Standout Performances: 1 ( Zoe Lund )

    Total RealReview Rating: 7
    8Quinoa1984

    Death Wish meet Repulsion in this Abel Ferrara near-great of cold-blooded murder

    Thana (not Hannah as one might mistake to hear) hasn't had a good lot in life. She doesn't have really any family or friends, she works for pittance as a clothing workshop, and can't speak as a mute. She's also very attractive, and one day walking home she's pulled into an alley and raped by a man in a mask. She staggers home, bewildered by the whole thing, but before she can get her bearings she comes upon *another* man, in her apartment before she got home, who was in the midst of theft. He instead decides to go ahead for the rape. Twice in one day? Fat chance of that - she finally takes her moment, and Thana hits the guy to the ground and then with an iron kills him.

    From then on the film takes its beat as something of a quandary, but a truly fascinating one: this isn't quite an exploitation flick, but it's not really a vigilante action-revenge picture like Death Wish, and yet it has hints of both. It's like Abel Ferrara and his writer St. John took the revenge element of Death Wish, of taking it to the street to rid the scum, but took it also to another level like in Polanski's Repulsion. Here Thana isn't some expert at self-defense, and shouldn't be as good as she is with the .45 she pulls off of the rapist #2. But she is good at getting her chance to kill people, and she does, even if they haven't really done anything to her (one of the more curiously ambiguous scenes is when Thana meets a guy at a bar, he keeps rambling outside about strangling his cat, she's about to shoot and it doesn't fire, he takes the gun and instead of shooting her shoots himself)

    True, not all of the acting Ferrara is able to gather up totally works; some of them, like two actors playing a pimp and a prostitute (even for one scene) falls flat as believable streetwise (better is Thana's boss, a creep who wants to have his way with her but hides it under a thin veneer of professionalism and care). And it may also be true that Ferrara's film paints men- hell, just most people- as jerks or losers or total dogs, and really who will miss them when they're gone? It's that part of it that makes it an exploitation flick, especially in that one sequence at night when Thana goes out and kills the most amount of people (a whole group of gang-bangers in the park, an Arab and his chauffeur in a limo, the cat strangler). And as part of tugging at the weakest of heart strings, there's a neighbor who has a little dog and (gasp) will the dog make it through the end of the film?

    A lot of this is pulp, but it's well directed and given a score that is fresh and cool in an early NY 80's sort of way. And when we do take it most seriously it's when looking right into Thana's face and her eyes, which start off terrified and dazed and a little in a surreal mindset (watch when she is surrounded by (over) concerned co-workers, or when she's in the bathroom and sees a hand near her breast that isn't there), and soon turns cold and bloodless. It's almost a symbolic kind of turn, hence even the name Thana which dates back to Greek mythology. This isn't someone to root for, which is what mucks up the traditional angle of a B-movie. Instead Ferrara is after something a lot deeper. Ms. 45 is action and a bit of horror (dismembered body anyone?) but it's also a sad tale of a girl without any hope, who is going crazier by the day and dresses out in black like a spider out on the prowl.

    It's got some bad-ass dimensions of drama, and a rather wicked climax involving slow-motion and Ms. 45 herself going in her maniac mode in a nun costume, and is mostly marred by a few sub-par supporting performances (albeit a very low-budget indie from NYC) and a few little unsatisfying scenes.
    8ThrownMuse

    The best of its subgenre.

    After leaving work, a lonely mute New Yorker is raped twice in one afternoon. She manages to fight back against the second rapist and kills him with his own gun. She is traumatized and chops up his body and sticks it in the fridge. She tells no one, and is unable to cope with what happened. Soon, she's finding empowerment by using the gun to dispose of any man that may potentially take advantage of her or other women.

    I am not a fan of the rape/revenge genre, but this compelling film miraculously manages to avoid exploitation on nearly every level. The rape scenes are disturbing but fortunately not as explicit as in many genre movies. While the content of "Ms. 45" is obviously over-the-top and exaggerated, it manages to retain a sense of dignity that rises above tacky movies like "Baise Moi" and "I Spit on Your Grave." Zoe Lund is incredible as the lead actress, depending on her versatile facial expressions to portray what mental state the character is in.

    My Rating: 7.5/10.
    7charles000

    Corny, low budget . . . and very entertaining

    This is one of those uniquely offbeat, low budget B grade productions that is actually very entertaining in its own, well . . . unique way.

    Among some, this has become a sort of cult classic, and I can see why.

    Is this for everyone? Possibly not, but in its own context of subject matter, story, aesthetic and quasi indie production style, this could easily be seen as one of those rare gems that just seems to have that right mix for an eclectic film experience.

    The basic story is our lead character Thana, played by the astonishingly beautiful Zoe Lund, who works in a NYC garment district fashion sweat shop as her day job, and as part of that day job has to walk the daily gauntlet of leering and taunting male lowlifes, with the usual assortment of catcalls, "hey baby" one liners and all that. Her female sweat shop co-workers have thicker skin, flipping off the usual assortment of male taunting scumbags as part of their daily routine, but Thana is a bit more . . . sensitive.

    Not to make light of the actual reality of sexual harassment, this is the extreme example of such lowlife BS inflicted upon women.

    But final straw for Thana was getting raped, twice in the same day . . . that part of the film is genuinely painful to watch.

    At which point, Thana, who manages to get a gun from the 2nd rapist, who she dispatched to the next world during said rape, decides she has a mission in this world, and embarks upon such with steely determination.

    Of course, there have been numerous other films with this same basic story concept, Jodie Foster's "the Accused" perhaps being my favorite choice in this genre', but this particular production has it's own unique character which sets it apart from the others.

    Yes, there is some gore (well, a lot of gore), but it's not in your face raw meat scenes, more like implied gore as a consequence of what's being portrayed, with a few vignettes worth noting (serving the ground up remains of her 2nd rapist to the nosy neighbor's dog being a memorable example thereof).

    The entire aesthetic of this production is very 1980s NYC; grimy, gritty, attire, attitudes and settings of the time.

    In any case, I'd say this is definitely worth checking out. The story goes a bit off the rails in the ending grand finale scenes, but even as over the top as such may be, it does seem to fit the overall ambiance in its own way.

    Corny, low budget . . . and very entertaining, definitely 7 star material.
    9Captain_Couth

    The Cinema of Abel Ferrara

    Ms. 45 (1981) was an interesting view on the revenge flicks that were popular during the mid 70's to the early 80's. Abel Ferrara and his co-conspirator Nicholas St. John follow the life of a mute dress worker (Zoe Lund) who snaps one day after being raped twice. She kills her last attacker and keeps his gun. After seeing the grim world around her and the loss of her mental faculties, she decides to do a hunting.

    A strange but highly enjoyable film that takes exploitation films to a whole new level. The gritty direction by Abel Ferrara and the smart writing from Nicholas St. John elevate this movie above most of the trash that was produced during this time period. The star, Zoe Lund posses some unearthly beauty and she has that certain stuff to make the material work. Not many other actresses could have pulled this off but she some how manages to.

    If you can find an uncut version of this movie I advise you to go out and get it. This is one of the best vigilante movies you'll ever watch. I have to highly recommend this film. It's Abel Ferrara doing what he does best. Street level film making!

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      Zoë Lund was only 17 years old when this movie was filmed.
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      One band member is playing the trumpet, but a saxophone sound comes out of it. There is no trumpet sound in the song the band is playing.
    • Citazioni

      Albert: Hello, Bobby.

      Party Host: And Sister?

      Albert: Thana.

      Party Host: That's a charming name. Is that Greek?

      Albert: It's Greek to you, Bobby.

    • Versioni alternative
      The British video release, on Warner's Maverick Director's label, was cut by 1m 42s by the BBFC. Early copies of this version, released in 1997, were accidentally mastered with the uncut version. These were quickly recalled and replaced with the BBFC approved version, but some uncut copies were sold - they can be identified by the code on the spine of the tape (082897). The cuts were made to the rape scenes and to a shot of Thana severing a dead man's arm with a bread knife. The use of a set of nunchakus was also removed.
    • Connessioni
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Halloween II, Priest of Love, Chanel Solitaire, The Watcher in the Woods (1981)
    • Colonne sonore
      Ms. 45 Dance Party
      Written by Joe Delia and Artie Kaplan

      Performed by Joe Delia and Artie Kaplan

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    • Data di uscita
      • 24 aprile 1981 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Ángel de la venganza
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • 40 Pell Street, corner of Mott Street and Pell Street, New York, New York, Stati Uniti(Baskin-Robbins scene)
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      • Navaron Films
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      • 1.85 : 1

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