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The Vanity Serum

Alex INFASCELLI

Italy2004 91min 35mm Color

Synopsis

The movie, is based on the novel by Nicolo Ammanity and it deals with an incident caused by obsession. Celebrities start to disappear in Italy and this becomes a big issue. They are nowhere to be found. However, no one can even guess the motive behind the crimes and the plot becomes more mysterious. Detective Lucia and Franco start to investigate the disappearances and discover that it has a link to the Sonia Norton Show, a popular TV show in Italy. They need to protect the guests of the show, and these guests are Rocco Piccolo, who dresses like a woman, Ajura, who just won the Miss Italy, singer Esther, Magician Daniel and Dominique, who raises ostriches. They warn the guests, but the guests ignored. They also tell Sonia Norton about their investigation, but she tries to use this incident for her own show. Thinking that criminal may be one of the guests, the detective monitor them 24 hours a day. After discovering some clues, Lucia searches for the suspects. The female detective ends up in an underground path. Are all the missing people locked down in here? Is the suspect a brutal killer? Sonia Norton tries to use the missing guests for her TV show. The audience gives her a big hand for her professionalism instead of booing her.

Diretor

Alex INFASCELLI

Alex INFASCELLI(Rome, 1967) began working in 1990 as production assistant, for the video by Michael Jackson, directed by John Landis, and and by Prince.