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| LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: **** |
Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot-proceeding John Cassavetes's OPENING NIGHT... an indie-drama version of an Italian Giallo where Gena Rowlands hallucinates a beautiful young girl... Italian auteur Francesco Barilli's THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK has long-haired blonde American ingenue turned European short-cropped blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer seeing her dead mother, guided around by her younger self in scream-queen Lara Wendel...
Which all ends up inspiring another future horror flick, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME... not to be spoiled since Farmer's "Industrial Scientist" character Silvia Hacherman spends most of the time like a deer-in-headlights, perfect for an actress possessing a unique kind of powerfully magnetic vulnerability: able to speak volumes without saying very much, and she's rarely been more beautiful — and she's always really beautiful...
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| Mimsy Farmer in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK |
Perfectly suited for the colorfully-eclectic Italian interiors that resemble gothic doll houses for grownup art buffs, she's in a perpetual state of either reacting to the visions or conforming to the suspenseful fright each one brings... ignited by dramatic over-bursts from a tour-de-force horror soundtrack, including eerie violins that both anticipate and orchestrate the slow-burn horror, not without a touch of investigatory neo-noir mystique...
In what could be deemed a hangout exploitation/thriller... that includes contrasting grungy-urban THIRD MAN like exteriors, teasing the famous jarring climax that our traipsing Silvia practically wanders into and, verbally/visually referencing Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Barili's dreamlike PERFUME is an arthouse horror's horror flick that (despite some lackluster dubbing into English) is both hypnotically surreal and viscerally nightmarish.
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