Based on the sensational international best seller 'One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed' MELISSA P is about a steamy tale of raw emotions and frank sexuality. Lonely, neglected by her parents and feeling the loss of her grandmother fourteen-year-old Melissa turns to sex as an outlet of expression. Propelling herself .. Read more
| Starring | Maria Valverde, Geraldine Chaplin, Primo Reggiani |
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| Director | Luca Guadagnino |
| Genres | Drama, Gay/Lesbian, World Cinema |
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Very disappointing. Performances all round are pretty poor, and the plot is Dawson's Creek/O.C standard, only with slightly more nudity. Give this a miss, ... more
This is just grim. Girl just gets used and abused but local boy she fancies. Her obsession allows him to do with her as he wants. As she goes from vanilla to ... more
Very disappointing. Performances all round are pretty poor, and the plot is Dawson's Creek/O.C standard, only with slightly more nudity. Give this a miss, ... more
Quite decent acting but the story is a bit dodgey. I have lived in Italy for 10 years and to be honest with you, this depicted a lot of true blue italian ... more
An exploration of one young adolescent girl's painful experiences of love, ... more
Although in some places rethorical and predictable, Melissa is a well thought movie that looks at serious issues and problems a teenager faces when growing up... more
Read the novel some time ago - 100 strokes before bedtime - and this is a fair stab at an adaptation. It was always gonna be difficult to perfectly encapsulate ... more
This film doesn't do the book justice, This could have been very good but it was just like an Italian version of the OC, I was very disappointed .
so many people were disappointed by the movie as they had read the book before hand.As i to have read the book(one of my favourites) i had high expectations of... more
italian film on teenager initiation to sexuality. I stopped before the end. it was really boring.