Allured by the beautiful Tina Aumont's performance in Sergio Martino's flawed Giallo Torso,I decided to take a look at Aumont's IMDb page,where I discovered she had appeared in a 2 hour (!) Avant- Garde Horror,which led to me getting ready to pay a visit to the cemetery.
The plot:
Talking to Leonardo da Vinci,a man soon discovers that Da Vinci may have mistaken someone else for Mona Lisa.As the man searches for the real Mona Lisa,Frankenstein's monster looks at a row of books which contain details about the human soul,as men and women start searching for a connection between sex and the universe.
View on the film:
Designed as a piece for writer/director Franco Brocani to express his feelings over culture having reached a sublimation stage in the last 200 years,Brocani stops the film from becoming a dry lecture by keeping the dissection of culture moving in rapidly-changing sketches.Brocani also offers up the unique opportunity to see well- known Horror movie characters from Frankenstein's monster to Countess Elizabeth Bathory in a deconstructive manner.
Giving the title a stage atmosphere thanks to using plane back drops,Brocani creates a startling depth of field by using solely using primary colours which along with giving the movie a surreal poetic quality,are also splashed across the screen to the rhythm of Gavin Bryars tumbling score.Not afraid to let a take run,Brocani expertly uses closed-off camera moves to slowly release an unsettling horror mood,due to each of the characters in the film appearing to be completely disconnected, and isolated to any over- lapping events that they experience.
Lighting up every scene she's in,the ravishing Tina Aumont gives a great performance in her various un-named roles,with Aumont giving the title a nervous sense of uncertainty,as her wide eyes look obliviously across the chaos taking place around her. Reuniting from their land mark appearance in Andy Warhol's Blue Movie, Viva and Louis Waldon give pitch-perfect dry performances as a couple who are attempting to enter a sublimation society.
The plot:
Talking to Leonardo da Vinci,a man soon discovers that Da Vinci may have mistaken someone else for Mona Lisa.As the man searches for the real Mona Lisa,Frankenstein's monster looks at a row of books which contain details about the human soul,as men and women start searching for a connection between sex and the universe.
View on the film:
Designed as a piece for writer/director Franco Brocani to express his feelings over culture having reached a sublimation stage in the last 200 years,Brocani stops the film from becoming a dry lecture by keeping the dissection of culture moving in rapidly-changing sketches.Brocani also offers up the unique opportunity to see well- known Horror movie characters from Frankenstein's monster to Countess Elizabeth Bathory in a deconstructive manner.
Giving the title a stage atmosphere thanks to using plane back drops,Brocani creates a startling depth of field by using solely using primary colours which along with giving the movie a surreal poetic quality,are also splashed across the screen to the rhythm of Gavin Bryars tumbling score.Not afraid to let a take run,Brocani expertly uses closed-off camera moves to slowly release an unsettling horror mood,due to each of the characters in the film appearing to be completely disconnected, and isolated to any over- lapping events that they experience.
Lighting up every scene she's in,the ravishing Tina Aumont gives a great performance in her various un-named roles,with Aumont giving the title a nervous sense of uncertainty,as her wide eyes look obliviously across the chaos taking place around her. Reuniting from their land mark appearance in Andy Warhol's Blue Movie, Viva and Louis Waldon give pitch-perfect dry performances as a couple who are attempting to enter a sublimation society.