A cult film that inspired generations and that not only helped to define genre cinema in Italy but also represented a province until then less view of cinema than the abused Rome and Milan.
We are talking about the masterpiece of the gothic Paduan The house from the windows laughing at Pupi Avati. The film has returned to the cinema since 13 July in a version restored in 4K, made by SND and Cineteca di Bologna at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, starting from the original negatives made available by ACEK, distributed by CG Entertainment and Cat People.
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La casa delle finestre che ridono recensione
The house from the windows that laugh among the most represented of Italian yellow, has a very personal charge that Pupi Avati instills to the story, just like the painting “ cursed” in the center of history. A rural fable in which nature proves black and ruthless, suspended between reality and fantasy, dream and nightmare, tension and mystery, ecstasy and terror.
Stefano, a young restorer, is in charge of bringing back to light a macabre fresco in an isolated village of the lower Padana: the painting, the work of a suicidal artist years ago, depicts the martyrdom of San Sebastiano in the arms of two women with monstrous appearances. As the restoration proceeds, Stephen finds himself wrapped in an atmosphere of omerity and terror, discovering that behind the colors of that wall there is a bloody secret that the community desperately tries to protect.
A sort of open-eyed madness, which moves between thrillers and horror, between supernatural and deeply earthly atmospheres, which speaks of religion that easily flows into fanaticism especially in provincial contexts, sexism and prejudice, of relationship with sexuality, their body and faith. All in great advance on the times if we think of the topics conveyed today by genre cinema.
No one misses the appeal: the police commissioner who perhaps knows more than he says, the woman of easy costumes with a bad reputation that is also teacher of the elementary, the old lady forced to bed, the taxi driver perennially drunk and paranoid to which no one believes, the seeming “stage of the village”, the feared priest of God.
A story of crazy, as the director defined it, which seems to have fished it from that ancient oral tradition of fairy tales of good night told to the little ones that however easily flow into the most gruesome horror, between visions and suggestions, just to keep them on guard to behave well when they wake up. Just like us spectators when we get out of the hall, intuition and suggestion.
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