Giallo (2010)
Directed by Dario Argento
In Italy, a woman fears her sister has been kidnapped; Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
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What critics compared Giallo to
In its playfulness and miniaturist style, the third feature by the Budapest-based Englishman Strickland is closer in spirit to his fiendish giallo tribute Berberian Sound Studio (2012) – which featured D’Anna as the only character who doesn't daunt Toby Jones 's paranoid Gilderoy – than to his primal rape-revenge drama Katalin Varga (2009).
Given the sun-drenched, mellow vibes of his biggest hit, it still seems surpassingly bizarre that Guadagnino’s next move was to try to remake Suspiria , his elder countryman Dario Argento’s canonical 1977 giallo , a movie that not only got everything right the first time, but did it with such distinctive, idiosyncratic flair that any attempts at replicating it would be doomed to fail.
But as unexpected a follow-up as a remake of Dario Argento’s Giallo classic might have seemed on paper, Guadagnino’s signature sincerity and depth of feeling made the film itself both an undeniable expression of his auteur voice and the rare remake to refreshingly assert its own unique identity.
La película no solo recrea al Soho londinense de los años 60 sino que arma una red de citas de un conjunto de films característicos de la década como Tres rostros para el miedo (Michael Powell, 1960) o Repulsión (Roman Polanski, 1965) y, de modo más general, recupera formas creadas por el giallo (los thrillers italianos capitaneados por Mario Bava y Dario Argento) y los títulos de la legendaria compañía Hammer.
Like a W magazine photo spread conceived by Baudelaire and art-directed in electric colours by giallo maestro Dario Argento, the opening of The Neon Demon offers a foretaste of the plasticated grand guignolerie that by the end of Nicholas Winding Refn’s meretricious psychological horror movie has yielded both a feast and a bloodbath – in the precise senses of those words.
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…dollops of other Gothic/Grand Guignol filmmakers: David Lynch (life’s a dream), David Cronenberg (life’s a dream that makes icky things sprout from your flesh), Brian De Palma (life’s a voyeuristic tracking shot), and even that Italian giallo maestro Dario Argento (life’s a dark mirror that will shatter and slash you).