The American Orthopedic – Critique | Video 2024

“The American Garden“Pupi Avatis (Il Signor Diavolo) is genüsslichen Gothic-Thrillers ist nicht nur der Hinterhof an suburban Schreibdomizils, in the psychotic Triebe of the young Hauptcharakters (Filippo Scotti, Die Hand Gottes) fallen on fertile Boden, under the Genre-Garten in the head of the Directors. Dort sprießen blutig-bissige Bluten in Form filmgeschichtlicher Zitate and cineastic Querverweise auf Kult-Werke und Kino-Classic von Dementia 13 und Dementia über Psycho bis zu What Happened to Baby Jean? Introduce us to the inspirations that form the background of the psychotic protagonists.

The name of the aspiring scribes is Guy De Maupassants who describe the classic schauernovels, the psychoanalytic phantasmagoria is illuminating in the Pulp novel. There is no question of an atmospheric representation of the genre, but of the unstable mind of the disinterested erzählers. The end of the Flüche is a jewel of Grant Woods or the nachbarhaus founded by Andrew Wyeth. This spiritually confused resident (familiar: Rita Tushingham, Boudica) animates in her search for her disappeared daughter.

Barbara (Morena Gentile, Dante) became Lui’s romantic obsession: a mere photograph and fantasy presents a fatal woman, the character of which is uncertain who her fate is. This is combined in Italy with the blutrünstigen Taten eines Serienkiller (Roberto De Francesco, Sicilian Letters), the trial of which Lui is suspicious. Hacked-off glimmers, a mysterious secret, necrophilic pleasures and an Irrenanstalt … The ironic play with morbid motifs finds its aesthetic equivalent in the moody Schwarz-Weiß scenes, his expressionistic Chiaroscuro refines the morbid melodrama.