Tuesday, May 11, 2010

More unreleased Bruno Mattei: SECRETS OF WOMAN (2005)

Original title: Segreti di Donna



RUNNING TIME: 94 min.
PRODUCTION: LA PERLA NERA s.r.l.
PRODUCED BY: GIANNI PAOLUCCI
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: LA PERLA NERA s.r.l.
PRODUCTION MANAGER: SAMMY INTERNO
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN/ENGLISH
FILM FORMAT: DIGITAL
SUBJECT: ANTHONY TRENTON - BRUNO MATTEI
SCREENPLAY: ANTHONY TRENTON
DIRECTOR: PIERRE LE BLANC (aka Bruno Mattei)
MUSIC: FLIPPER
PHOTOGRAPHY: LUIGI CICCARESE
SCENOGRAPHY: RANDY GARNIER
COSTUME: CHOCHY NICDAO
EDITING: DANIELE CAMPELLI
CAST: KATHY NOVAK - YVETTE YZON - ROBERT DAVIS

Judging by the trailer this looks like a soft porn flick. As far as I'm aware it's unreleased on in any home-cinema format and it belongs to that handful of movies that Bruno Mattei shot late in his career in the Philippines. Interestingly enough, it has Yvette Yzon in the main role. She also played the lead in ZOMBIE: THE BEGINNING, ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD and THE JAIL. Actually, I have a feeling that all her film work was for Bruno. According to the crappy IMDb she hasn't made one single movie since Mattei's last movie, ZOMBIE: THE BEGINNING.

8 comments:

  1. Jack, I talked to Ms Yzon just a month later after Mattei died & she told me around Feb 2009 she would shoot a kind of remake of Cannibal Holocaust in the Philippines directed by Deodato. At the time we talked they were already on preparation of the project, but till now nothing happened.

    During summer 2008, Yvette Yzon had an account in youtube where she upload some videos about the shooting of last mattei's movies as well as some videos of herself with friends. We used to talk a lot during those days
    Suddenly after X'mas, she erased everything & cancel her account.
    I haven't been able to talk to her anymore.

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  2. Gee wiz!! A remake of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST! That sounds weird as CANNIBAL WORLD was already a remake!

    Thanks for your info, JM. It sounds weird that she would cancel her account and disappear that way. I wonder if she decided to completely pull out of the movie business. Do let me know if you ever get in touch with her again.

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  3. I remember she used to talk to Lefteris as well throught her youtube account.
    some retard started to write bad comments about Mattei & Yzon stopped it, then Lefteris, like a knight, also try to avoid that kind f rubbish comments about Mattei.

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  4. That's very weird. Do you know if she lives far from you in the Philippines? A proper interview would be awesome. Her last film credit on IMDb is ZOMBIE: THE BEGINNING. Do you know if this really is her last one so far or are there any more?

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  5. She was in Manila last time i talked to her throught youtube. She was doing some kind of postproduction work with Jim Gaines at that moment.

    And, this is very important, she also studying Nursery at a private school in Manila...I said it is important because I got the feeling she wasn't so sure about her near future after Bruno Mattei died. She told me about that project with Ruggero Deodato who was supposed to ocupy Mattei's chair at La perla Nera.

    I think Yvette is married to Gianni Paolucci or they were having a relationship at that time. I still have the PM we used to send each other at that time...have to check them.

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  6. oh, to be fully honest i must add, after I lost contact with her, I thought she was doing the movie she talked about but the next thing I knew about her was Andrew Leavold had interviewed her...so maybe Andrew has more updated info this beauty!

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  7. Hi guys,

    Yvette is back in MAI LAI FOUR, in her first post-Bruno production for Gianni Paolucci's La Perla Nera company (http://www.diamondsinternationalfilm.com/credits_eng.php?id=38). It was shot in the Philippines in 2008 and is now in the marketing stage.

    I talked to Yvette on-camera on the ZOMBIES: THE BEGINNING set. It looks fantastic: her sitting in the middle of the underground surgery set while it was being built! She was, and as far as I can tell, still is Gianni's partner. Jim told me Gianni and Yvette divided their time between Rome and Manila...Jim's still in contact with Gianni, so I'll check in with him for an update.

    Jesus, hope everything's going well in Spain. Sorry I haven't been in contact recently; many thanks for the Joseph Lai transcription!

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  8. Thanks JM and Andrew for the info.

    Yeah Andrew, it would be cool if you could ask Gaines about her. Btw, do you have any more info on the Deodato directed remake of "Cannibal Holocaust" that she talked about to Jesus Manuel? Is that a dead fish or still going to happen?

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