This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.
I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).
Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
有点不如预期,故事新编感觉像是A24在恐怖片之外的支线任务,但蘑菇致幻、异教徒仪式依旧不断提醒观众A24出品。灯光和音效以及人声BGM非常出色,旋转镜头和故事轮盘转出时间的倒错。最曼妙的莫过于两次于危难中看尽不同抉择后的人生,勇气在胆小、懦弱、玩垮、背弃中被锤炼,在一生的悔过中铸造骑士精神。
很美丽的童话,爆笑了好几次,跟想象的大红狗真的不太一样
以皮兰德娄的身后骨灰为始发点,巨大的争议与巨大的荣耀都曾聚焦于这位作家身上,回溯那“恐怖、野蛮、挣扎的十年”,藉由魂归大海而达成漫长的告别;未完成的告别则不仅是皮兰德娄遗作——《钉子》化为影片第二部分,更是“To my brother”——保罗·塔维亚尼对哥哥的纪念,两部分的捏合通过一位作家和黑白/彩色的切换达到转承。
看完挺懵逼的,出来后看到别人的背景评论才懂原来是这样。结合原本的故事看还挺奇妙的,就是有一点比较矛盾,他这么怂怎么会自愿接受游戏呢,如果改成被迫的话可能会说的通
What's the meaning of this film?
仿佛做了俩小时的法,满是晦涩难懂的隐喻,尾声让人豁然开朗一些。对骑士精神的试炼,“Now little knight, off with your head” 妙啊。ps:A24气质到位,艺术感太强了,摄影配乐真绝,Dev还是很稳。放映前羊崽的预告真吸引人。
不过 黑白渐渐彩色很喜欢
也太爆米花了吧。现在外国人对中国人的印象就是有钱?
如果DIVERSITY和ZZZQ就意味着秦始皇得由非我族类来演的话,那我宁可“落后”
心情不好的时候最适合看这类电影,轻松,搞笑,有爱。
真的骑士精神。学Sir Gawain and the GreenKnight时很不喜欢Sir Gawain. 电影的结尾愿意多加一星。
72/100 #EFM# 以动情的方式告别死者,以年轻拍年老,时间在不同叙述方式之间和叙述层面内外跳转。只是没看过Kaos也不了解Vittorio的话,部分片段真的不知道在干嘛…
运送作家路易吉·皮兰德娄的骨灰回到他的家乡西西里,只是全片的楔子,陡然变换画风的第二幕小品才是真正的灵魂所在。镜头的轮转间使用了大量历史影像、其它影片的片段,从而产生了奇妙的环境作证。保罗·塔维亚尼用整个过程记述着人们对死者的真实态度,伟大的作家再塑碑立传也不一定会被铭记,而由你亲手促成的坟墓才会一生难忘。整部影片也相当精准地纪录着,二战前夕到现如今意大利人的生活变化。大师级的极简影像之美。
画面不错,开始一直比较吸引人,但是后面越来越看不懂。
高文的骑士成长奇幻之旅
亚瑟王+王后一起亮相让人瞬间以为是普罗米修斯/异形串场。作为一个文艺片,比较让人侧目的是莫名其妙的精神污染:例如男主突然就偶遇奇行种而且还试图搭个便车/被拒(* ̄︶ ̄*)音乐刻意在凯尔特风,但过于单薄几乎可以被忽略不计
5.我要养毛绒绒小狐狸他看起来好有礼貌的样子不接受反驳!!
What does the fox say的巨制MV
戴夫帕特尔实在太帅了,好吃这一款的♂。电影像诗歌,但是形式主义有些太重了。
文本过于私人,看得一知半解,但阻挡不了我对大师级手笔的它的喜爱。在走向海滩撒掉骨灰,由黑白转入彩色,似乎到这里已经是导演私人创作的圆满,但最后掌声响起,镜头定格在顶上的圣像画才是给大家一个戏剧的落幕。#2022十佳。 @2022-06-18
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