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La tarantola dal ventre nero (Black Belly of the Tarantula, 1971)

"Yes, I've always told you to drop it, it's true. But now... you're not giving up. Not now. And I don't really care about the movie. If they're out to get you, it means the murderer is afraid of you. It means you know what you're doing. He's afraid of you."

#La tarantola dal ventre nero #black belly of the tarantula #italian cinema #giallo #1971 #paolo cavara #marcello danon #lucile laks #giancarlo giannini #claudine auger #barbara bouchet #rossella falk #silvano tranquilli #barbara bach #stefania sandrelli #annabella incontrera #ezio marano #giancarlo prete #nino vingelli #eugene walter #anna saia #relatively early in the giallo canon but it's nice how this is already starting to play with the established formula; Giannini's lead would #ordinarily be a loner out of his depth or an overly confident cop‚ but instead he's a cop out of his depth‚ crippled with self doubt and #paralysed by his own dissatisfaction with his chosen profession. he does his job well and correctly but still people keep dying and still #he solves the case less through some genius epiphany of what he's been missing and more from simply being in the right place at the right #time. it lends this all a sense of helpless ennui‚ the giallo as predestined exercise. unusual too in lacking a strong female leading #character; Bouchet is introduced as the apparent audience avatar then unceremoniously killed off a few minutes in‚ with no one really #rising to take her place. it's an interesting and downbeat dissection of the tropes‚ exposing that while plotting was usually king for #these films‚ in reality (and there is a streak of realism through this film which many gialli miss) it has little impact on the people and #the lives concerned. there is a great complex qeb of intrigue going on but it ends up having nothing to do with the killer's motive

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