Year: 1996
Duration: 01:59:29
Directed by: Dario Argento
Actors: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann and Marco Leonardi
Language: English
Country: Italy
Also known as: La sindrome di Stendhal, Le syndrome de Stendhal, El síndrome de Stendhal
Description: “Stendhal Syndrome” – is a specific feature of the mind, when a person takes the life pictures very sharply, as if wrapping in the image’s reality. The boundary between reality and fantasy for these people is erasing. Main character, Anna becomes a victim of maniac, and this event is causing irreparable damage to her psyche. Even when she deals with the killer, it seems that he is still alive and stalking her. As proof of her theory there are more dead bodies … The movie was directed by Dario Argento, who also made suck pictures as Night Hunter and The Card Player
Review: Many believe that the film is not fully implemented and shows the situation with the Stendhal Syndrome, in which I agree and disagree at the same time – the first part of the film the viewer is quite clearly the whole “Stendalevskuyu” component, paintings, drawings, colors, sounds, reflecting their essence – looks are schizophrenic, but fascinating, a bit confusing, but very interesting. Even addictive. But the problem is that in the so-called second part of the film does not develop Stendhal Syndrome, and grows in a different mental illness, symptoms of which can not be well to draw to the above symptoms. It is rather a new stage, a different because of what this transition is perceived a little harsh, and often it seems and is not necessary, although it does have its own charm, if time to get used to the little plot twists, though the ending seems quite expected, but a right.
Asia is just wonderful, very beautiful, plays great, and throwing passes showers quarrel with the psyche of the heroine perfectly. Musical score by Ennio Morricone from the gorgeous, cute, scary recurring motif perfectly conveys the atmosphere of schizophrenia. Suffice very hard moments, especially when the heroine and the maniac left alone, and since their first meeting was so fast, as much in the beginning that I could not even believe that this is not a dream of Anna. Blood, violence, sex, everything is there, but not in exaggerated scale, comes to the fore is the notorious psychology.
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