- Starring 17-year-old beauty-contest winner Ewa Aulin (CANDY), and Jean-Louis Trintignant (A MAN AND A WOMAN), Deadly Sweet is a most unusual crime story. In the film, a French actor finds his business contact lying murdered on the floor. Rather than call the police, he decides to protect the young woman at the scene and nail down the true killers, which puts him on a collision course with the Lond
In italy a woman fears her sister may have been kidnapped. Inspector enzo avolfi fears its worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as yellow. Studio: Maya Entertainment Grp Release Date: 10/19/2010 Starring: Adrian Brody Run time: 92 minutes Rating: NrWith the exception of die-hard aficionados of European or Italian horror cinema, most people may not have heard of
giallo cinema or have seen many films in this subgenre of horror. Most academic film studies tend! to ignore horror cinema in general and the
giallo specifically. Critics often deride these films, which reveal more about the reviewers' own prejudices than any problem with the works themselves. As a counter to such biases, Mikel J. Koven argues for an alternative approach to studying these films, by approaching them as vernacular cinemaâ€"distinct from "popular cinema." According to Koven, to look at a film from a vernacular perspective removes the assumptions about what constitutes a "good" film and how a particular film is in some way "artistic."
In
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film, Koven explores the history and evolution of this aspect of cinema, and places these films within the context of Italian popular filmmaking. He addresses various themes, motifs, and tropes in these films: their use of space, the murders, the role of the detective, the identity of the killer, issues of belief, excess, and the set-piece.
In addition to being the first academic study of the !
giall o film in English, this book surveys more than fifty films of this subgenre. In addition to filmmakers like Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Koven also looks at the films of Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Pupi Avati, Umberto Lenzi, and others. In all, the works of twenty-five different filmmakers are considered in this book. Also explored are the inter-relationships between these films: how one influences others, how certain filmmakers take ideas and build off of them, and how those ideas are further transformed by other filmmakers. Koven also explores the impact of the
giallo on the later North American slasher genre.DEADLY SWEET (COL CUORE IN GOLA) - DVD Movie
