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The Geometry of Shadows
By GoldfishNation in GoldfishNation Blog
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"I am going to commit murder," whispers our killer, as the camera flits around the jaded revellers at a New Year shindig. "I can imagine the thrill and pleasure I will experience as I stalk my victim..." Shortly after, John Lubbock (Maurizio Bonuglia) survives an attack in an underpass on his way home, and journalist Andrea Bild (Franco Nero), a fellow attendee, decides to investigate. Then a second party goer - invalid Doctor's wife Sophia Bini (Rossella Falk) - is attacked and killed in her home, and Andrea's elderly editor is found dead in a local park, both bodies accompanied by the killer's calling card (a black glove with first one then subsequent fingers cut off). Suddenly, the outspoken, hard-drinking journalist finds himself rising swiftly up the list of suspects. What raises Giornata Nera Per l'Ariete (aka The Fifth Cord) above the average giallo is striking cinematography and a couple of genuinely suspense-filled murders. The sequence involving the Doctor's wife is the mo ... " [More]

Giornata Nera Per l'Ariete

I Spit on Your Grave

Daughter of Tears
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"The opening to What Have You Done to Solange? has the ring of familiarity to it. The setting is outdoors on a riverbank, the characters are Elizabeth (winsome English Rose) and Enrico (passionate Italian male). The camera closes in on Elizabeth's eyes as she finally succumbs to the older man's advances when images flash suddenly across the screen - a girl running, an outstretched hand, the flash of a blade - courtesy of some seamless editing. It's an exercise in how unsettling something can be when occurring on a bright sunny day. It also employs Argento's recurrent motif of skewed perception. Elizabeth (Cristina Galbó of The Killer Must Kill Again) is unsure of what she's actually seen and Enrico (Fabio Testi of Revolver, Engima Rosso), exasperated by what he assumes are delay tactics, brings the boat to shore. The following morning a body has been found on the same stretch of the Thames. A girl from Elizabeth's school has been knifed to death in a m ... " [More]

What Have You Done to Solange?