The Stendhal Syndrome

The Stendhal Syndrome
by Dario Argento

The Stendhal Syndrome
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Actor: Asia Argento, Luigi Diberti, Marco Leonardi, Paolo Bonacelli, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: Dario Argento
Cinematographer: Giuseppe Rotunno
Producer: Dario Argento
Writer: Dario Argento
Producer: Giuseppe Colombo
Producer: Walter Massi
Writer: Franco Ferrini
Writer: Graziella Magherini
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-08-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.

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Movie Review: The Stendhal Syndrome - Blu-ray Info
Summary: 3 Stars

Version: U.S.A / Blue Underground / Region Free
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / AACS
Running time: 1:59:31
Movie size: 37,70 GB
Disc size: 44,52 GB
Total bit rate: 42.07 Mbps
Average video bit rate: 33.01 Mbps

DTS-HD Master Audio English 2611 kbps 7.1 / 48 kHz / 2611 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1767 kbps 7.1 / 48 kHz / 1767 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 448 kbps)
Dolby Digital EX Audio English 448 kbps 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
Dolby Digital EX Audio Italian 448 kbps 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 448 kbps

Subtitles: English SDH / English
Number of chapters: 24

#Director interview: Dario Argento (SD - 20 min.)
#Inspiration: Interview with Psychological Consultant Graziella Magherini (SD - 20 min.)
#Special Effects: Sergio Stivaletti (SD - 16 min.)
#Assistant Director: Luigi Cozzi (SD - 22 min.)
#Production Designer: Massimo Antonello Geleng (SD - 23 min.)
#Trailer (SD - 1 min.)
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Summary of The Stendhal Syndrome

International star Asia Argento portrays Anna Manni, a beautiful police detective in pursuit of a savage killer-rapist that has been terrorizing central Italy. When his trail leads Anna to Florence's famed Uffizi Museum, the investigation takes a violently psychotic turn. Anna is struck by a bizarre phenomenon known as the Stendhal Syndrome, a psychological reaction to artwork that makes the viewer fall unconscious; and in Anna's case, vulnerable to the terror she is tracking. As she gets closer to the vicious killer, her strange affliction transports her into nightmares of carnage. Her prey has now become her predator. Anna must destroy the killer before she is destroyed by THE STENDHAL SYNDROME.
The first half of Dario Argento's heady psycho-thriller is a mesmerizing merging of dream and reality. A beautiful young Italian detective (Asia Argento, who does little to convince us she's a tough, seasoned cop) investigating a serial rapist is suddenly overwhelmed when the paintings in an art museum erupt with life. According to the film, this is "the Stendhal Syndrome," an intense and overwhelming response to art that turns the viewer mad. As Anna steps in and out of fantasy worlds like Alice through the looking glass, she's kidnapped by her quarry, who repeatedly rapes and tortures her in a dark, dank underground cave. The delirious nightmare of shattered reality becomes a sadistic, mean-spirited spectacle of murder and degradation--perpetrated on, of all people, the director's own bound and beaten daughter!--and the thriller disintegrates into a paranoid mystery of amnesia, split psyches, and shadowy phantoms. At its best this is a mesmerizing vision of madness: paintings melt into the real world while objectivity disintegrates before our eyes. But before the unexpectedly sensitive conclusion, Argento puts the viewer through a bravura but brutal series of gory murders (a slow-motion bullet passes through both cheeks of a helpless victim, and another shooting is viewed from inside the body) and unsavory violence. The poetic beauty of Phenomenon and the craftsmanship of Suspiria and Deep Red are sorely missed. --Sean Axmaker

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