Focus on Argento
What:
Focus on Argento
When:
Right now until Sun Dec 16
Where:
ACMI
Session details:
Here
Watch the trailer:
To Suspiria here
Or to The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things here
Win:
We have three double passes for the Go Go Tales screening on Sat Dec 15 at 9pm. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘cheesecake pin-up’
Dario Argento is called ‘The Italian Hitchock’ and sure, he loves his knives, but it doesn’t do justice to the rich, drenched psychodrama of his horror films. Asia Argento, his daughter, became a cheesecake pin-up for the art-crowd and is now writing and directing her own work.
ACMI is halfway through letting these two share the spotlight. Sadly, this focus leaves out the more unusual, obscure films that Dario and Asia worked on together, and replaces them with attempts at sure-fire seat-fillers. (Marie Antoinette? Really? What, no available print of Vin Diesel’s XXX?)
What’s left? Friday night there’s Dario’s 1977 supernatural classic, Suspiria, which needs to be seen big and loud for full sensory overload. Saturday there’s Asia’s adaptation of The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, based on the novel by literary hoaxer JT LeRoy.
And on Thursday and Saturday there are the first Melbourne screenings of Abel Ferrera’s latest, Go Go Tales, featuring Asia and Willem Dafoe. The director of Bad Lieutenant describes his new film – with admirable insight – as his “first intentional comedy.”
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Won't hurt a bit
Keywords: ACMI, Dario Argento
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