“Through me you pass into the city of woe, through me
you pass into eternal pain.” In recent years the 'neo-giallo' movement
has grown, moving hand-in-hand with the re-evaluation of gialli from the 1960s,
70s, 80s, as well as the few that were released in the 1990s. Through DVD and
now Blu-Ray – distributed by high quality and dedicated labels such as Arrow
Video, 88 Films, Shameless Screen Entertainment (plus many more in various
markets around the globe) – the genre has gained a whole new audience, with
the films afforded lavish restoration and supplemental packages for
unparallelled home viewing experiences. With the love spreading for these movies
– made by filmmakers such as Dario Argento, Mario Bava, and Sergio Martino (among
many others) – it was only natural that new examples of the genre
would begin to appear. Masks, Amer, The Strange Colour of Your
Body's Tears, and Yellow are all examples of this 'new old school'
of highly stylised murder mystery – and the Argentinian Francesca (from
the director of Sonno Profondo) is perhaps the one which nails the
classic style closest of all...
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