A couple months ago, we heard that genre icon Dario Argento has finally directed a new movie, ten years after the poorly received Dracula 3D (watch it HERE). Argento’s new film is called Dark Glasses, and now we know when the film is going to play in front of an audience for the first time: it has been announced that Dark Glasses will be having its world premiere at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival, which is scheduled to run from February 10th through February 20th.
Described as a classic giallo with a touch of horror, the film stars Ilenia Pastorelli as
a prostitute blinded by a serial killer in a botched attack. She takes in a young Chinese boy, whose life has also been abruptly altered forever by the maniac’s actions. He will become her ally in a terrifying struggle to see off the serial killer forever.
Pastorelli is joined in the cast by Andrea Zhang and Asia Argento.
Dark Glasses is produced by Conchita Airoldi and Laurentina Guidotti of Urania Pictures, along with Getaway Films. Screen Daily provides the following information: “Set against the backdrop of Rome and its surrounding countryside, it brings together the contrasting worlds of a high-class prostitute working in the chic hotels around Rome’s Via Veneto and a young boy hailing from the city’s Chinese community.”
Dario Argento had this to say about Dark Glasses:
She’s an adult and blind, he’s too young to get by on his own. In addition, two different cultures: she is Italian, the child is Chinese. This combination is the engine of Dark Glasses. The film represents my desire to explore two worlds: hers, we know it; his is more mysterious, and it will let us enter the neighbourhoods, houses and customs of the Chinese community in Rome, where they created a real ‘Chinatown’.”
It will be interesting to hear what the reactions to Dark Glasses are like after it screens at the Berlin Film Festival.