Dario Argento was the master choreographer of the distinctly Italian art of horror known as giallo, was a baroque, often sadistic kind of slasher movie that favors intricately - designed murder sequences and
aesthetic beauty over logic.
Not exact matches
From an
aesthetic standpoint, Maleficent may as well be protecting Pandora from the grubby hands of the human scum who threaten its unobtainable
beauty — and
beauty really is unobtainable in a movie from first time director Robert Stromberg, who carries
over his grotesque production design
aesthetic from Oz The Great and Powerful and the Tim Burton incarnation of Alice in Wonderland.
Not only does that reading explain the fervent use of voice -
over, never more present here, recounting and musing on each experience with that hushed, inimitable whisper, but it also explains the unique
aesthetic of Malick's films: his desire to capture fragmented but ideal forms of corporeal, natural and architectural
beauty, rendered so by Emmanuel Lubezki's superlative cinematography and some elliptical, compelling editing.