Dario Argento’s Berlin Film Festival Special Gala entry Dark Glasses plays out almost like a parody of his earlier work. Co-written with Franco Ferrini, it’s a lurid giallo about a killer slaughtering women in contemporary Rome.
It lacks the suspense and style of Argento’s work in the 70s and 80s, while repeating various themes. Echoing the pianist in Suspiria (1977), the lead in Dark Glasses (or Occhiali Neri in its native Italian) is a woman who has lost her sight.
Diana (Ilenia Pastorelli) is a high class escort who has been chased by a killer and blinded in an accident during her escape.
Arriving on her doorstep is Rita (Argento’s daughter Asia Argento), whose job is to help the newly-blind adjust to their condition.
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