![]() With the father dead and mother in a coma, young child Chin (Andrea Zhang) reaches out to Diana for help. ![]() Later, Diana is pursued by the van through the streets of Rome after being assaulted by a client in a sequence that ends in an unexpectedly gruesome crash and sets the narrative outline for the rest of the film.ĭiana has been fully blinded in the crash, while a Chinese immigrant family has been torn apart. As police investigate, we learn that it’s the fourth in a series of murders. ![]() In a sequence that could have been ripped straight out of Argento’s 70s giallo films, another escort is brutally slain outside a hotel in the center of Rome, while her killer makes a hasty getaway in a van. She stops in the park to see what’s going on, only to be temporarily blinded by a solar eclipse before donning a pair of sunglasses. In an evocative pre-credits sequence, high-end escort Diana ( Ilenia Pastorelli) drives around the streets of Rome while bystanders point up to the sky. But Black Glasses ditches some of the worst elements of those films, such as the third-rate CGI effects, and represents the director’s surest hand since at least 2001’s Sleepless.īlack Glasses opens with a trio of bravura sequences that signal a return to form for the director, and promise a better film than what is ultimately delivered. Of course, that’s faint praise Argento’s most recent films, such as 2012’s Dracula 3D and 2009’s Giallo, starring Adrien Brody, have been justifiably torn to shreds by critics. ![]() Italian horror maestro Dario Argento is having something of a career resurgence over the past year: first, an unexpectedly heartfelt lead performance in Gaspar Noé’s devastating Vortex and now Black Glasses ( Occhiali Neri, and screened as Dark Glasses at this year’s Berlin film fest), which represents his first film as director in 10 years, and his best in 20. ![]()
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