The Stendhal Syndrome

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Country:Italy

Director:Dario Argento

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Year: 
1996

Summary:

Dario Argento's thriller stars the director's daughter Asia as Anna Manni, a police woman trying to capture a vicious serial rapist and killer. The problem is that she suffers from ‘Stendhal’s syndrome’, a psychosomatic disease that gives her dizziness and hallucinations when she is exposed to the sight of paintings and artistic masterpieces. When the maniac lures her into a trap inside Florences' famous Uffizi museum, her troubles are just beginning... Argento puts his own highly perverse giallo spin on the dynamic relationship of fetishism, subjectivity and cinema. Argento twists his narrative to emphasize our addiction to the scopic regeime and the price we must pay for it.