D.fter ten years away from the set – the last film was the misunderstood Dracula of 2012 – Dario Argento is back behind the camera with Black glasses, new thriller that will be screened world premiere at the next Berlinale 2022, Special Gala section.
Initially intended for his daughter Asia, the film instead has as protagonist Ilenia Pastorelli, ex Big Brother now become an established actress. Especially after the presence in Blessed madness by Carlo Verdone e the victory of a David di Donatello for They called him Jeeg Robot.
Black glasses: the plot of the film by Dario Argento
Rome. An eclipse obscures a scorching summer day. IS the omen of something terrible that is about to happen to the young escort Diana (Ilenia Pastorelli), and that is the interest of a serial killer who chooses her as prey. To escape, however, he goes to crash into a car, losing sight. Her “second life” is anything but remission and stasis, Diana in fact decides not to give up, and to try to catch the delinquent. But she is no longer alone.
Little Xinyu Zhang and Dario Argento on the set of “Black Glasses”.
To defend her and to see for her are Nerea, his German wolfhound, and little Chin, survived the accident. The Chinese child, brave and much more mature than his age, accompanies Diana on an escape to the last breath. United by fear and the desperate search for a way of salvation also because the ferocious tireless killer.
The return of the master of horror
The news of a new film by Silver – only recently seen in a collaboration with the MSGM brand and in the film Vortex? by Gaspar Noé – has excited all fans of the genre. Not just because Dario is an absolute icon of the genre – the most passionate fandom is the Japanese one -, but above all because Eyeglasses is a project he has been pursuing for over twenty years. And that for no better understood legal disputes it always got stuck.
From daughter Asia to Ilenia Pastorelli
Already directed by his father in five films (the first was Trauma, in 1992), Asia was supposed to be the star of Dario’s comeback. But last summer, for unspecified reasons, the actress abandoned the project.
The imagination immediately runs to some quarrel. The father-daughter relationship has in fact always been very complicated. Over the years they have not been without quarrels, mischief in the press and sudden reconciliations. Like the one after the uproar caused by Asia regarding the Weinstein case.
It must be said that Ilenia’s arrival seems to have had Asia’s blessing. Quoted by the actress of They called him Jeeg Robot in a post on the Instagram account: “Thanks to Dario I had one of the most beautiful and intense acting experiences of my life. Playing a blind woman was a journey into darkness that definitely illuminated other aspects of me. I also thank Asia, without her probably all this would not have happened “.
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