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Ornella Vanoni, 'Quei Giorni Insieme a Te'
Riz also did a minimalist, sinister score for Lucio Fulci's anti-Catholic, anti-rural South giallo masterpiece Don't Torture a Duckling, but it wasn't even the best music in that film, because this was. This is from a scene where a local witch played by Florinda Balkan is brutally murdered by a vigilante gang who erroneously believe that she is responsible for a series of child murders, due to their own superstitious prejudice and misogyny. The song peaks as she is crawling to the edge of a new motorway, fatally injured, looking on as happy tourists from Northern cities drive by unaware, and all the messages from the film are encapsulated in this one scene with great pathos. It fully puts to rest the idea that Fulci was a hack or a misogynist himself, although his own despair and cynicism becomes evident in the later gore movies which has led to the accusation. A sad story. Even outside of this context it's a powerful song which I have been known to sing along to loudly in my car with very approximate Italian. Again, I have no idea what it is about, but I can feel what it is about.