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A LIZARD IN A WOMAN’S SKIN
1971
Director
Lucio Fulci
Starring
Florinda Bolkan
Stanley Baker
Jean Sorel
Runtime
95 minutes
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Orgies, LSD freakouts and painting-by-knife-throwing turn this 1971 giallo into a lightning rod of left-field psychedelia courtesy of Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci.
Arthouse/grindhouse mainstay Florinda Bolkan stars as Carol, an uptight housewife with an even more uptight husband (Jean Sorel) and a somehow even more uptight politician father (Leo Genn). Her neighbor Julia (Anita Strindberg) has wild, loud happenings that reverberate through the walls into Carol's staid dining room — and even deeper into her subconscious. Carol starts having erotic, disturbing dreams about Julia, which culminate in Julia's murder at Carol's hands. When Julia is found dead in reality, Carol must figure out the link between her dreams and reality.
Made before Fulci became internationally famous for eyeball trauma and industrial-strength gore, A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN reveals a filmmaker more interested in the psychological disorientation inside of our brains than what those brains look like after our skulls have been crushed. Still, the murders here are shocking, the visuals are beautiful, and nearly everyone appears to be having a nervous breakdown in some exceptionally fashionable surroundings.
THE MORRICONE CONTRIBUTION:
One of Morricone's most hallucinatory creations: whispered voices, disembodied moans, distorted percussion, and drifting jazz textures. It's music carried back out of its composer's uneasy dreams. Beautiful and faintly diseased.
Arthouse/grindhouse mainstay Florinda Bolkan stars as Carol, an uptight housewife with an even more uptight husband (Jean Sorel) and a somehow even more uptight politician father (Leo Genn). Her neighbor Julia (Anita Strindberg) has wild, loud happenings that reverberate through the walls into Carol's staid dining room — and even deeper into her subconscious. Carol starts having erotic, disturbing dreams about Julia, which culminate in Julia's murder at Carol's hands. When Julia is found dead in reality, Carol must figure out the link between her dreams and reality.
Made before Fulci became internationally famous for eyeball trauma and industrial-strength gore, A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN reveals a filmmaker more interested in the psychological disorientation inside of our brains than what those brains look like after our skulls have been crushed. Still, the murders here are shocking, the visuals are beautiful, and nearly everyone appears to be having a nervous breakdown in some exceptionally fashionable surroundings.
THE MORRICONE CONTRIBUTION:
One of Morricone's most hallucinatory creations: whispered voices, disembodied moans, distorted percussion, and drifting jazz textures. It's music carried back out of its composer's uneasy dreams. Beautiful and faintly diseased.