Open My Heart

Writer, director and star Giada Colagrande's feature-film debut is the kind of sleazy European trifle that grind-house habitués once lived to devour. A lushly pretty prostitute and her 17-year-old sister live a stiflingly insular existence further complicated by the younger girl's clandestine affair with a custodian at her dance school. Nothing good can come of this sexual awakening, except a fetching sequence in which Colagrande, clad in a black slip and stockings, does the sort of interpretive dance often found in sex pictures with intellectual pretensions.