A Rather Complicated Girl
1969 · 100 MIN · IMDB 5.7 · 244 VOTES · DIR. Damiano Damiani
Overview
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
Dialogue Timeline — 846 lines
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00:00:15 A RATHER COMPLICATED GIRL
00:04:10 Claudia, answer!
00:08:16 God.
00:11:36 With him that you used like a thing.
00:16:04 But now you know me, you're disappointed.
00:21:28 Now you know who I am.
00:24:42 From time to time...
00:27:45 - Now that I think about it... why not? - I would say...
00:32:45 That's the thing. I must have a motive.
00:35:40 - What's all here? - Existence, life.
00:39:29 - How old? - 24.
00:44:54 It's not allowed.
00:48:48 I hated her and hated even myself.
00:54:20 But that was me?
00:58:26 Why not call her?
01:02:29 That Claudia makes love with that boy?
01:08:02 She was a farm girl.
01:10:43 Anyway, I thought you'd do it all by yourself.
01:16:02 What were you talking about?
01:19:05 The South-west wind blows from the sea.
01:23:48 - The day before the accident, you were at the house, right? - Yes.
01:27:42 - Stop it. Don't play these jokes. - And you were playing with me.
01:31:57 Pietro's a bore, I realised immediately.
01:37:52 psychologically tortured. But...
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed846
Dialogue density8.5 lines / min
First line00:00:15
Final line01:37:52
Production Record
DirectorDamiano Damiani
LanguageItalian
IMDb votes244