My copy of Joe D'amato's Porno Esotic Love (AKA Sexy Erotic Love) was in Italian without subtitles, so I downloaded an English .srt file before watching; I like to understand what is going on, even in trashy Euro-porn. Unfortunately, the subtitles weren't much help, the translated dialogue almost entirely gobbledegook:
"Now you're high, you're deciding."
"You seem like a violin string."
"You wake in your without you realize."
"No stay. I'll ferent company."
"Pune and a few drops of perfume."
From what I could work out, D'amato regular Laura Gemser plays erotic dancer Eva, who goes undercover to find the heroin smuggler responsible for the death of her lover Iris (a performer in live sex shows) and take revenge. If it all feels rather familiar, that's because D'amato re-uses loads of scenes from his own Black Cobra Woman (1976), splicing in hardcore from Porno Holocaust (1981), with a smattering of new triple-X content and some additional 'dramatic' footage to try and make his film feel less random. The result is a tedious mess that, at 100 minutes long, requires serious staying power (D'amato includes an interval halfway, presumably to give the viewer the opportunity to splash water in their face).
