Sentences with phrase «giallo films in general»

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As much as the 1946 adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice has earned its place as an important American Film Noir, so too Ossessione is essential to Italy's history of lurid, intoxicating giallo cinema.16 Ossessione provides a perfect bookend to Calamai's final performance as Marta in Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso (1975): in both films Calamai embodies a similar bug - eyed feminine insanity, both characters pushed to the edge of violence and despair at their seeming invisibility to the men in their lives, and to society in general.