Genre icon Dario Argento has finally directed another movie, ten years after the poorly received Dracula 3D (watch it HERE), and his new film Dark Glasses will soon be premiering at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival, which is scheduled to run from February 10th through February 20th. Soon after that, it will be receiving a theatrical release in Italy on February 24th – and in anticipation of that release, a teaser trailer has arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above.
The teaser is short and in Italian, but there isn’t any important dialogue and at least it offers a look at the first new Argento imagery in a decade.
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 provided 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’.”
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