Giornata nera per l'ariete
Directed by:
Luigi BazzoniCinematography:
Vittorio StoraroComposer:
Ennio MorriconeCast:
Franco Nero, Silvia Monti, Wolfgang Preiss, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edmund Purdom, Rossella Falk, Guido Alberti, Agostina Belli, Pamela Tiffin (more)VOD (1)
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When a man barely survives a brutal assault en route home from a New Year s party, washed-up, whisky-swilling journalist Andrea Bild (Franco Nero, Django) is assigned to report on the case. Before long, the maniac strikes again, this time with fatal results. As the body count rises, Andrea falls under suspicion himself, making it even more imperative that he crack the case. His only clue lies in a series of black gloves found at the location of every attack, each with a finger cut off... (Arrow Films)
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"There is something deeply divine in the possibility of turning a suffering being into forever soulless matter..." Ennio Morricone's minimalism with psychedelic tones is merely a complement to the attractive form of the Storaro brand. Fish-eye lenses, voyeurism, play with light and shadows, the color gray of brutalism, and in nearly every shot, reflections whether in window panes, glasses, glossy surfaces, or the azure irises of investigator Franco Nero. The shade of his dark circles suggests how deeply immersed he is in the investigation, entangled in the police loop, while the solution has been right in front of him the whole time in the pseudo-scientific column of the magazine he writes for. And with that, we arrive at the content, which hasn't even remotely surpassed the shadow of its genre.
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