In 1974 the Italian-American director Brian de Palma, struck criticism and public (in truth the latter will appreciate the film over time making him become a cult) with this work that escaped a precise gender classification, and this according to the dictates of movement of film renewal of the period, named New Hollywood. It was not a strict sense a musical, nor a horror, but he undoubtedly elements belonging to the two kinds (the following year the other Cult The Rocky Horror Picture Show in Sharman would come out). Starting from the ghost of the work, the famous novel by Gaston Leroux, continuing with the Fausto Goethiano and the portrait of Dorian Gray of Wilde, the director takes advantage of it to stage the fierce and degraded show business of rock music that among other things At that time he was in drifting, well represented by the exhibition of the Beef singer.
In the film the director puts in place some of the teachings of his hitchcock mentor: evolutions of the MDP around the actors, resumed from the bottom, cuts of millimetric lights ... and more: use of deformant lenses and the Spilt Screen (split of the screen in segments) , all in a paroxysmal crescendo that will lead to the tragic conclusion of history! Unforgettable the horror mask of the protagonist, which has become a film icon.
Cinema to rediscover species if contextualized in the historical period of production!
In the film the director puts in place some of the teachings of his hitchcock mentor: evolutions of the MDP around the actors, resumed from the bottom, cuts of millimetric lights ... and more: use of deformant lenses and the Spilt Screen (split of the screen in segments) , all in a paroxysmal crescendo that will lead to the tragic conclusion of history! Unforgettable the horror mask of the protagonist, which has become a film icon.
Cinema to rediscover species if contextualized in the historical period of production!