Titanus (Italy)
Directed by Brunello Rondi
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)
Poor Daliah Lavi is obsessively in love with neighbor Frank Wolff. He sometimes returns her affection, but when he becomes engaged to someone else she becomes psychotic. Her friends and family think she is possessed so send her to a convent. She escapes and is hunted down by a lynch mob who believes she is a witch. Moody black and white photography by Carlo Bellero and eerie soundtrack by Piero Piccioni combine to create an atmosphere of horror and dread. However, it's really just a tragic love story; only the antics of the superstitious peasants give it any other meaning. The ravishing Lavi gives a good performance, though we really don't get to know much about her character, one of the major shortcomings of the film.
No comments:
Post a Comment