The Strangler w/SLIP

An unconventional French giallo released before the sub-genres popularity boom resulting from filmmakers like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, THE STRANGLER centers on mile (Jacques Perrin, The Young Girls of Rochefort), a handsome young man targeting women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple women fall to miles suffocating white scarf, inspector Simon Dangret, the detective assigned to track down the killer, resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man with the assistance of Anna, a beautiful woman who believes herself to be a potential victim.

Praised as a complex, melancholic meditation on isolation as well as a portrait of collective hysteria by the New York Film Festival, the film equally subverts and indulges in the conventions of the giallo with unexpected beauty and refinement. Director Paul Vecchiali has been hailed as a icon of a rebellious, reflexive, and emotionally excessive cinema by Le Monde and celebrated for his prolific filmography and decades spanning career as a critic, director, and producer.

directed by:Paul Vecchiali
starring:Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Eva Simonet, Paul Barge, Jacqueline Danno, Hlne Surgre, Katia Cavagnac, Sonia Saviange, Jean-Pierre Miquel, Nicole Courcel
1970 / 96 min / 1.66:1 / FrenchDTS-HD MA 2.0

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