Thursday, 11 September 2014

Death at the opera

Opera (1987)

Directed by Dario Argento this film stars Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini and Daria Nicolodi. A young understudy gets her big break in an opera version of Macbeth but the production is troubled by dark events.

Much of the plot of this giallo is as you would expect but it has a couple of nice touches that produce some grim sequences. It would have been nice if the link between the plot of the film and Macbeth was played up a little more but in general the story does it's job. Where the film is at it's strongest is the direction which has some impressive sweeping camera moves, mixing opera and rock for the sound track is a little strange at times but the film gets by.


4/5

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