'[Peter Rist on Livio Delgado] Simparele begins on a close up of Ms. Claude [...] She wears red and becomes surrounded by black men wearing red, white, or yellow. Here, the cinematographer, Livio Delgado, seems to be rendering the rich colours of the costumes in high contrast with the stark backgrounds, similarly to Jorge Herera’s black and white cinematography for the first part of Lucia.'