The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 4K 1970 ITALIAN Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

The maniac does his black deeds in the ancient city of Rome, and there is no mercy for single women if they do not have a companion at this late hour who can defend not only their honor, but also their lives. One day a bored American writer wandered through the night in Rome. And now he becomes an accidental witness of a brutal crime in an art gallery - the owner's wife has suffered.

Review 4K Movie

Italy is a calm country where nothing ever happens. At least, this was the opinion of the American writer Sam, who came to Rome with his wife Julia. One late evening, Sam witnesses an attempt on the life of a girl in an art gallery and barely saves her from death. This event will mark the beginning of a series of murders of young single women, each of whom is involved in a mysterious figure in a cloak and black gloves.

"Bird with Crystal Plumage" or "Crystal Feathers" is the first work of Dario Argento, the future king of Giallo, who continued the genre traditions of another Italian classic of this horror subgenre - Mario Bava. The film is considered to be a classic giallo, provoking the "golden age" for Italian horror films with a characteristic visual aesthetics of sophisticated bloody murders and unexpected plot twists. As is often the case in giallo, here a juicy visual style, coupled with the desire to surprise and shock the viewer with script twists, is put in the first place, sometimes sacrificing the logic of the script and the acting. For example, in the scenes of the murder of the victims, they, killed, play somehow parodically and operetta, which neutralizes the proper frightening effect when viewed more than script flaws, to which, sometimes, you can close your eyes. And in general, the acting game gives off a little artificiality, and the minor characters turn out to be spelled out more interestingly than the main ones. However, the rest of the time, the suspense of the film will not be denied, which is facilitated by the musical accompaniment of Ennio Morricone, as well as in the "tasty" visual component from the cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who is beginning his career in big cinema, who later filmed the masterpieces of Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, and others eminent directors. In short, Argento's first film turned out to be expectedly bright and quite interesting to get acquainted with the work of the director and Giallo as such.