The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
(La Sindrome di Stendhal)
Country: IT
Technical: col 120m
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
Synopsis:
A young woman police officer on a visit to Florence discovers herself susceptible to becoming engulfed by works of art, the syndrome of the title. At the same time she captures the attention of a rapist-murderer who subjects her to renewed assaults before she kills him and assumes his psychosis herself.
Review:
The director's baroque brand of horror, based around elaborately gruesome murders in labyrinthine architectural settings, here gets an extra shot in the arm thanks to the complicity of fine art, giving rise to at least one bravura sequence of cinema. The plot, however, is as contrived and absurd as ever, with Argento's own daughter the hapless pawn of his disturbing obsessions.
(La Sindrome di Stendhal)
Country: IT
Technical: col 120m
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
Synopsis:
A young woman police officer on a visit to Florence discovers herself susceptible to becoming engulfed by works of art, the syndrome of the title. At the same time she captures the attention of a rapist-murderer who subjects her to renewed assaults before she kills him and assumes his psychosis herself.
Review:
The director's baroque brand of horror, based around elaborately gruesome murders in labyrinthine architectural settings, here gets an extra shot in the arm thanks to the complicity of fine art, giving rise to at least one bravura sequence of cinema. The plot, however, is as contrived and absurd as ever, with Argento's own daughter the hapless pawn of his disturbing obsessions.
(La Sindrome di Stendhal)
Country: IT
Technical: col 120m
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
Synopsis:
A young woman police officer on a visit to Florence discovers herself susceptible to becoming engulfed by works of art, the syndrome of the title. At the same time she captures the attention of a rapist-murderer who subjects her to renewed assaults before she kills him and assumes his psychosis herself.
Review:
The director's baroque brand of horror, based around elaborately gruesome murders in labyrinthine architectural settings, here gets an extra shot in the arm thanks to the complicity of fine art, giving rise to at least one bravura sequence of cinema. The plot, however, is as contrived and absurd as ever, with Argento's own daughter the hapless pawn of his disturbing obsessions.