Plot Summary:The film, based on the novel by Anna Maria Ortese, narrates the adventures of a rich, dreamy Italian Count, Aleardo, who, while traveling on a sail boat ends up on the remote island of Ocana, off the Portuguese coast. Here, three impoverished Portuguese aristocrats live in dire poverty, cut off from the world and thrown back to the nineteenth century. He finds the melancholy, tormented Ilario and his sinister half-brothers Hipolito and Felipe together with a female servant they treat like an animal they mysteriously call "Iguana". Fascinated by the extravagance of his hosts and troubled by the suffering and charm of the young "Iguana", Aleardo stays on the island for a night and a day. During which he is drawn into an intrigue with disturbing implications. Is the Iguana the latest transformation of the devil or is she merely a victim, an innocent creature to be saved and protected at any cost? Aleardo's journey becomes an hallucinating descent to hell. The Iguana can be read as a ...
本片根据安娜·玛丽娅·奥特斯的小说改编,描述了一个富裕的、爱做梦的意大利建筑师阿勒朵的冒险经历。在阿勒朵航海旅游的过程中,着陆到了一个叫做奥卡纳的偏远小岛上。这个岛上居住着三个穷困潦倒的葡萄牙贵族——忧郁痛苦的伊拉里奥和险恶的兄弟赫勃里多和菲利普,他们与世隔绝,过着19世纪的生活。和他们生活在一起的还有一个被称为丽古安娜女仆。他们三个像对待动物一样的对待她。好奇于主人铺张奢侈的招待以及年轻女仆的悲惨命运,阿勒朵上住了一天一夜,渐渐陷入了迷思:伊瓜纳如岛上居民所认为的是恶魔的化身吗,亦或她也是一个无辜的受害者?