A relationship with the “young girl” who Bargellini spies on for years, delicate “invention” of his soul, his “spiritual bride” (…) a more real relationship with Nelda in an exposed-developed film, in a continuum, a spontaneous act of love; I perceive Nelda: woman-matter-energy and her Unity …

Sirio Luginbühl, in Lo schermo negato. Cronache del cinema italiano non ufficiale, Shakespeare & Co., 1976