Thunderbolt and lightning...

...disturb the troubled-to-begin-with sleep of Mimsy Farmer in 1974's Il profumo della signora in nero, a beautiful but strangely uneventful (up to a point) giallo. Somehow by my non-attendance at this year's Chiller Expo inspired me to make the film the subject of this week's Foreign Region DVD Report at The Auteurs'. All will be explained there. 

Comments

[charles]

Very lovely, but ... is it just my monitor, or do all your screen saves have a bluish tinge? Thank you for lots of great film coverage.

[Glenn Kenny]

@charles—could be your monitor; this problem doesn't occur when I look at the blog on either of my two computers...

[Anthony Thorne]

Cool piece Glenn and I wasn't aware that you were a full on Eurohorror fan, though if you bought the Lucas Bava bio, little more needs to be said. PERFUME is a fun flick and I particularly admire the opening family-photo shot, which says all you need to know about Farmer's likely earlier traumas. The first I heard of PERFUME was back in Craig Ledbetter's great ETC zine, and it still holds up.

It's worth noting that a UK label, Shameless, has been picking up the slack over the last year or so and bringing out a bunch of rare Eurocult titles - a longer BABA YAGA, the Tomas Milian MURDER BY DESIGN, a great remaster of THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN, and they have the rare as fuck Florinda Bolkan giallo FOOTPRINTS out in a few months.

The above still looks bluish but I recall PERFUME (if it's the Raro disc) looking kind of bluish anyway.

[John Merrill]

Mimsy was awesome back in the day. More was one, even Riot on Sunset Strip!

[charles]

It's always been the prerogative of the visual artist to lean the spectrum heavily to one hue. But it has always (unreasonably) annoyed me when the artist colors the whole canvas blue; my first assumption is always that there has been an error in reproduction or that the colors have faded.