On Oct 31, 12:49 pm, "Avoid normal situations."
"No, I don't mean to ask. I mean the Dario Argento movie with that title. This is the story of ... lost his touch for a long time now 20 years or more. I think I'm beginning to believe them."
Its style over substance. DYLH is shot like a student film, most of it with a wide lens, and its alot of long master scenes, and establishing shots, and there is really not a whole lot of coverage if any in most scenes, single angle, next scene and so on. The soundtrack is all over the place, its gotta alot of Psycho/Friday the 13th style choppy strings stuff and some Italian synthesizer sounds mixed in. DYLH had to be dirt cheap to shoot. I wont pretend to know anything about the politics of Italian filmmaking so who knows why DYLH looks like a very cheap 80's movie and at times looks like 70's porn with the hard shadows.
As for Argento, I dug on La Terza Madre, but those giallo movies are not for everybody. You definitely can't recommend one to a civilian American that is used to alot of camera work and editing. Its just a different type of cinema.
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