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Naked Livia Russo (18 years) in I mavri Emmanouella (1979)
In this scene Livia Russo was 18 years
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Wow.
After thinking about it a lot, I've decided that they could not have had sex after the scene ended. First, every other instance of sexual activity in the film is shown at least starting at a minimum, leaving no question as to whether sex occurred or was about to occur. In this scene they are nude but there is no sucking on nipples, fondling breasts, etc. which would imply more occurred when it faded to black. In the later scene with Mario, that intercourse occurs is unequivocal and definite. Second, it would make the rape scene at the end of the film much more anticlimactic if Livia were not a virgin when it happened. I mean, it's awful either way, but more tragic if it was her first time, especially since she could have had sex with her boyfriend but apparently passed up the opportunity, not knowing she would be raped shortly. Also, the scene where Emmanouella says that she sees a marriage in the tea leaves "... but there's a problem..." makes sense if the "problem" is that the bride lost her virginity to somebody other than the groom. (Though, this raises the question of just when she thought the marriage was going to take place, given Livia's presumed age based on that of the actress playing her - what's the minimum age of marriage in Cypress?)
Given how the hit-man Tommy (Gabrielle Tinti) treats some of the other women in this film , such as poor Illona, however, and the fact that he repeatedly interacts in a creepy manner with young Livia whenever their paths cross, the rape isn't out-of-the-blue or out of character, as I have read some assert on other websites commenting on this scene. Earlier I called the scene gratuitous, but this is so only in its explicitness, not in its occurrence.
I remember when I first watched this scene. When that first camera pan went from Livia's face and breasts down to her pubic hair and back up, my response was "FUCK yes! Oh, FUCK yes!" If that would've been it, that would've been more than I hoped for - but the scene CONTINUED! The second bit wasn't as close-up, but still showed everything. My favorite bit was the last part of the shower scene, in which she is on-screen quite long enough to make it painfully clear just how underdeveloped her teen body is - I mean, Jesus, they really rub it in. She turns to different angles, too, helping to make her figure/shape clear, especially her underdevelopment in the breast department.
(want to hear a really twisted theory? In the movie, her father Victor is portrayed as a scumbag and a pervert - the girl is walking down the stairs and sees dear old dad doing something I'm.... not sure I should describe to Emmanouella. And after he dies, when she's talking to Emmanouella as she (Livia) showers, she says that she despises her father. Kinda makes you wonder what he did, eh? (Hey, I didn't write the dialogue - if the director didn't want to leave this possibility open, he could've slammed the door on it.)