All Colors of Darkness | Movie Review

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All the colors of the dark (Italy, Spain - 1972) by Sergio Martino (Your vice is a closed room and only I have the key to it, The bodies show evidence of rape) is a thriller genre film that veers toward horror and is visibly inspired by Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski.
All the colors of the dark gode di una prima sequenza spettacolare caratterizzata da una regia e fotografia ineguagliabili. Il riferimento è il sogno della protagonista Jane Harrison (interpretata da Edwige Fenech) e in cui si assiste ad una sbalorditiva visione onirica intaccata da horror e surrealismo ma anche da un'atmosfera torbida e malata.

Si spalancano poi le porte ad una storia perennemente sospesa in una dimensione irreale dove la protagonista è costantemente tormentata da visioni, incubi e sogni premonitori. In questo contesto di malessere (che forse potrebbe risultare un po' monotono) ma anche di velati complotti, spicca la straordinaria performance di Edwige Fenech, qui intrappolata in un personaggio sensibile e fragile.
La donna infatti si farà anche trascinare nel mondo dell'occultismo partecipando ad alcuni rituali satanici che però, come i sogni, non faranno altro che confonderla maggiormente.

Between dreams, sabbaths and drama, All the colors of the dark is a valid visionary film that aims to shed light on a desperate and dark situation in which the main character is the absolute victim both in sleep and in reality.

The protagonist of the story is Jane Harrison (Edwige Fenech), a woman traumatized by the murder of her mother, a tragic event she witnessed as a child. The loss of the child she was carrying also crowns her state of anguish and grief before which her husband Richard and even her psychiatrist are powerless. Meanwhile, Mary Weil, an ambiguous neighbor, urges Jane to participate in a black ritual that could free her from her nightmares.

The cast includes Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Ivan Rassimov, Julián Ugarte, George Rigaud, Maria Cumani Quasimodo, Nieves Navarro, Marina Malfatti, Luciano Pigozzi, and Dominique Boschero.

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CG Entertainment paid tribute to the Italian-style giallo by launching, in February 2018, a START UP! crowdfunding campaign for the limited edition Blu-ray of All the colors of the dark (link to news story).
L'edizione DVD (per la collana CineKult) presenta artwork interno ed una sezione extra con intervista a Ernesto Gastaldi, Sergio Martino e a George Hilton.
The film is distributed by CG Entertainment.

DVD EDITION.:
VIDEO: 16/9 2.35:1
DURATA: 91'
AUDIO: Italian Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 2.0
N. DISKS: 1
SUBTITLES: Italian, Italian for the Deaf.
EXTRA: All the colors of giallo: interview with Ernesto Gastaldi, Sergio Martino and George Hilton

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