a ISBN B-00-0S0GYS-4

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title tur

a Classification number DVD 006094

a Personal name Dario, Argento.

a Title The Stendhal Syndrome

h Medium DVD

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Blue Underground

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1996

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Italy

a Extent 1 DVD

a Playing time 113 min

a Summary, etc The first half of Dario Argento's heady psycho-thriller is a mesmerizing merging of dream and reality. A beautiful young Italian detective (Asia Argento, who does little to convince us she's a tough, seasoned cop) investigating a serial rapist is suddenly overwhelmed when the paintings in an art museum erupt with life. According to the film, this is "the Stendhal Syndrome," an intense and overwhelming response to art that turns the viewer mad. As Anna steps in and out of fantasy worlds like Alice through the looking glass, she's kidnapped by her quarry, who repeatedly rapes and tortures her in a dark, dank underground cave. The delirious nightmare of shattered reality becomes a sadistic, mean-spirited spectacle of murder and degradation--perpetrated on, of all people, the director's own bound and beaten daughter!--and the thriller disintegrates into a paranoid mystery of amnesia, split psyches, and shadowy phantoms. At its best this is a mesmerizing vision of madness: paintings melt into the real world while objectivity disintegrates before our eyes. But before the unexpectedly sensitive conclusion, Argento puts the viewer through a bravura but brutal series of gory murders (a slow-motion bullet passes through both cheeks of a helpless victim, and another shooting is viewed from inside the body) and unsavory violence. The poetic beauty of Phenomenon and the craftsmanship of Suspiria and Deep Red are sorely missed.

a Language note Language(s): English, Turkish

a Language note Subtitle(s): Turkish

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Horror

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Crime

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Thriller

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fantasy

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element SciFi

a Personal name Asia, Argento.

a Personal name Thomas Kretschmann

a Personal name Marco Leonardi

a Personal name Luigi Diberti

a Personal name Paolo Bonacelli

a Personal name Julien Lambroschini

a Uncontrolled related/analytical title Stendhal Sendromu

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