The Stendhal Syndrome
Murder is an art — and she’s the canvas!
Country
Production
Budget
$3 800 000
Box office
$0
Director
Actors
Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, Luigi Diberti, Paolo Bonacelli, Lucia Stara, Lorenzo Crespi, Vera Gemma, Veronica Lazăr, Sandro Giordano
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Franco Ferrini, Dario Argento
Producer
Dario Argento, Giuseppe Colombo
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Massimo Antonello Geleng
Audition
Editing
Angelo Nicolini
Whole Team (18)
Whole Team (18)
Short description
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
What's left behind the scenes
- Stendhal syndrome is a specific psychological peculiarity in which a person experiences art with intense emotion, as if being transported into the reality depicted on the canvas. The boundary between reality and fantasy blurs for these people.
- The underwater filming of Anna after she fainted did not take place in a swimming pool, but in the sea. The giant grouper she kisses was actually a radio-controlled model towed on ropes attached to a motorboat. Literally a couple of minutes after filming wrapped, the model broke down.
- To decorate Alfredo's underground dwelling, graffiti artists were hired, and in just one night they covered about 10 square meters of walls with drawings.
- Director Dario Argento admitted that he himself experienced Stendhal syndrome as a child (a specific psychological peculiarity in which a person experiences art with intense emotion, as if being transported into the reality depicted on the canvas). Once, during a trip to Athens with his parents, he was climbing the steps of the Parthenon when he had an attack, fell into a trance, got lost, and was not found for several hours. This made such an impression on him that Argento never forgot about the incident, and when he came across a book by Graciela Magherini, he immediately thought of it and made a film on the subject.
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