La Casa del Buon Ritorno
La Casa del Buon Ritorno (Template:Translation) is a 1986 Italian giallo written and directed by Beppe Cino. It is also known as The House of the Blue Shadows.[1] The film was theatrically released in Germany as Das Haus der Blauen Schatten (The House With Blue Shutters).[2]
Plot
A little girl is pushed off a balcony to her death, and her murderer is never found. Fifteen years later, a young man named Luca and his fiancée Margit return to the house for a visit. Memories start returning slowly to Luca, and he begins to unravel the mystery of who killed the little girl. A strange woman named Ayesha turns up and unnerves Luca. Then murders begin to occur.
Cast
- Amanda Sandrelli as Margit
- Stefano Gabrini as Luca
- Lola Ledda as Lola
- Fiammetta Carena as Ayesha
- Francesco Costa as Bruno
- Eleonora Salvadori as Luca's mother
- Stanis Ledda (as Luca as a boy)
- Elvira Castellano
Production
La Casa del Buron Ritorno was budgeted at 300 million Italian lire and was shot in 12 days on 16mm film in and around Rome.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Actress Amanda Sandrelli commented that the film was shot quickly, "like pulling a tooth".Template:Sfn
Release
La Casa del Buon Ritorno was first exhibited at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 1986.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn It was distributed theatrically in Italy by C.R.C./Real Film on 13 February 1987.Template:Sfn The film was never dubbed into English and did not receive any theatrical release in the United States or United Kingdom.Template:Sfn
Reception
The film received negative reviews on its initial premiere.Template:Sfn Lietta Tornabuoni in La Stampa stated that the film was "below an acceptable professional level" and that Stefano Gabrini could not act.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn[3] Maurizio Porro of Corriere della Sera stated that the film was not clear whether the film wanted to be a "thriller, a horror, a love story. ... or an analysis session: however, the unpleasant thing is that it seems like something already seen, and it wishes to remain deliberately obscure."Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn[4]
Robert Firsching of AllMovie later described the film as an "atmospheric giallo" that "plays with the theme a bit more cleverly than most."[5] The review noted it recycled elements from older films such as Deep Red, Formula for a Murder and Onibaba but that the film was a "clever combination of rip-off and synthesis which has always been a hallmark of the national cinema, creates a unique, seemingly original story."[5]
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This article incorporates text from the Wikipedia article "La Casa del Buon Ritorno", available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.Retrieved 2026-03-04.
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