Occhiali neri
Dark GlassesDario Argento returns to directing after a ten-year hiatus with a film that mixes the mood of Italian “giallo” pulp fiction in his early work with his legendary touch of horror, albeit this time with a dose of sharp irony thrown into the mix. Occhiali neri is a headlong dash between city and countryside that explores the social conflict between rich neighbourhoods and Rome’s so-called Chinatown. The maestro’s gaze transforms this nightmare into pure geometry, and the class war into the kind of metaphysical architecture reminiscent of Antonioni.
With
- Ilenia Pastorelli (Diana)
- Asia Argento (Rita)
- Andrea Gherpelli (Matteo)
- Mario Pirrello (Chief Inspector Aleardi)
- Maria Rosaria Russo (Inspector Bajani)
- Gennaro Iaccarino (Inspector Baldacci)
- Xinyu Zhang (Chin)
- Paola Sambo (Nun in Orphanage)
- Ivan Alovisio (Doctor)
- Giuseppe Cometa (Child in Orphanage)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Dario Argento |
Cinematography | Matteo Cocco |
Editing | Flora Volpeliere |
Music | Arnaud Rebotini |
Sound Design | Bruno Ventura |
Sound | Daniele Maraniello |
Production Design | Marcello di Carlo |
Costumes | Luigi Bonanno |
Make-Up | Filomena Conte |
Assistant Director | David Maria Putortì |
Casting | Stefania Rodà |
Production Manager | Gabriele Pacitto |
Producer | Concepcion Airoldi |
Co-Producer | Noemie Devide |
Co-Production | Getaway Films Paris |
World Sales
Wild Bunch International
Produced by
Urania Pictures
Massimiliano Orfei, Laurentina Guidotti, Conchita Airoldi, Asia Argento, Ilenia Pastorelli, Dario Argento
Occhiali neri | Dark Glasses
Berlinale Special · Press Conference · Feb 11, 2022
Dario Argento
The director and screenwriter has been instrumental in shaping the Italian “giallo” thriller genre since he began making films in the 1970s. He rose to international prominence with Deep Red, recognised by many critics as the best giallo of all time. Since the 1990s, his daughter Asia Argento has starred in several of his films, including The Stendhal Syndrome, the first Italian film to use CGI and for which Argento remains the only director to date to receive permission to shoot in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Filmography
1970 L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) 1971 Il gatto a nove code (The Cat o’ Nine Tails) · 4 mosche di velluto grigio (Four Flies on Grey Velvet) 1973 Le cinque giornate (The Five Days of Milan) 1975 Profondo rosso (Deep Red) 1977 Suspiria 1980 Inferno 1982 Tenebre (Tenebrae) 1985 Il mondo dell’orrore di Dario Argento (Dario Argento’s World of Horror) · Phenomena 1987 Opera 1990 Due occhi diabolici (Two Evil Eyes) 1991 Dario Argento: Master of Horror 1993 Trauma 1996 La sindrome di Stendhal (The Stendhal Syndrome) 1997 Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror 1998 Il fantasma dell’opera (The Phantom of the Opera) 2001 Non ho sonno (Sleepless) 2004 Il cartaio (The Card Player) 2005 Ti piace Hitchcock? (Do You Like Hitchcock?) 2007 La terza madre (Mother of Tears) 2009 Giallo 2012 Dracula 3D 2021 Vortex · Occhiali neri (Dark Glasses)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022