The Strangler (L'Etrangleur)

A murder musical about brutal dreams. A very violent world of cinema that only exist in Vecchiali fantasies. Alienated, grotesque, but overtaken by painful longing. At times it suggests what if Peeping Tom come from a Frenchman who stayed a long time on the Cinemateque,…

Filipe Furtado

This never grabbed me but I do have to say I liked it's art house feel. especially this repeated route through a tunnel to his youth to capture his killing urge beginnings. There is so much thrown in the air in this narrative with a questionable cop, a woman who wants to be…

pirateneckbeard

Suspense replaced with alienation and malaise, mystery foregone in favor of philosophy and an elaborate narrative wherein characters are truly uninterested in solving the crimes but rather in seeing what roles they can occupy in this game of cat and mouse that surrounds it.…

Jerry

The anti-giallo. A real delight. Signed, yours truly, a depressed woman who lives alone.

Zynab

I think it would be a mistake to expect a crime thriller that works in a logical world. This is gorgeous and gruesome Vecchiali fantasy and I fell in love and horror at once. Especially enamored with the part where all the women run to the scene of the crime.

KYK

An enigmatic gem. A study of loneliness and alienation. Truly its own thing. Melancholic, graceful, dark, empathetic.

Avirup

1st Paul Vecchiali Collab with Irene! Don't think of this as giallo. Consider this as a companion to Arande's Fata/Morgana. Both take place in fragmented metropoles in the grip of serial murders, crimes treated as blessed reliefs from the monotony of existence. Yet…

𝔻𝕠𝕔 𝕃𝕪𝕠𝕟

he should strangle a baguette or a pain au chocolat

Sergio Muñoz Esquer

The great discovery of psychoanalysis was that of the production of desire, of the production of the unconscious. But once Oedipus entered the picture, the discovery was soon buried beneath the new brand of idealism: a classical theater was substituted for the unconscious…

Jerry