Dario Argento on Mixing Horror With Tenderness in ‘Dark Glasses’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAt 81, Italian horror maestro Dario Argento is busier than ever.The director of a string of cult chiller classics starting in the 1970s, including “The Bird With the Crystal Plumage,” “Suspiria” and “Deep Red,” was at Cannes last July with his acting debut in Gaspar Noe’s “Vortex,” about a pair of old lovers.
Argento was also celebrated last year with a new book by Italian critic Steve Della Casa and a retro at New York’s Lincoln Center.
This spring he’s set to be honored with a big show at Italy’s National Museum of Cinema in Turin.More significantly, having returned to the director’s chair after a decade, Argento is back with “Dark Glasses,” which he describes as a classic thriller, or giallo, as the violent crime genre is known in Italy. “Dark Glasses,” which is set in present-day Rome, screens on Feb.
11 as a Berlinale Special Gala, marking Argento’s first time in Berlin as a director, though he was on the fest’s competition jury panel in 2001.The pic is about a serial killer who strangles prostitutes with cello strings and is pursuing a luxury escort named Diana.
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