Why is this old thriller movie still so beautiful & remarkable until today?!


Question: It is from 1963, but the more you watch it, the more you ′re feeling exciting with it & you like it. http://www.amazon.com/Whip-Body-Daliah-L...
Starring: the legendary actor Christopher Lee
Directed: the cultdirector Mario Bava


Answers: It is from 1963, but the more you watch it, the more you ′re feeling exciting with it & you like it. http://www.amazon.com/Whip-Body-Daliah-L...
Starring: the legendary actor Christopher Lee
Directed: the cultdirector Mario Bava
...intriguingly striking and artistic films like this, are not necessarily non-existant anymore; today, being much fewer and far between, they just have pretty much been relegated to the arthouse film circuits, and livid Euro and Asian imports, venues where filmmaking is still measureably considered a form of artistic expression, rather than just a venue for making gobs of money from the general public...

...1963's "The Whip and the Body" is by far one of Mario Bava's finest piece of direction. Triumphed with a fine, literate screenplay, and superb central performances from actors Daliah Lavi and Christopher Lee, it is a work of delicate beauty and poetry never bettered by the director. The plot enwraps elements of Edgar Allen Poe into a pleasingly twisted confection that allows Bava's fetishistic imagination full reign. Long, purely cinematic sequences that might have seemed easily repetitious and/or dull in lesser hands, are transformed into enchanting and seductive moments of visual poetry. The director's expressionist use of color and shadow is much in evidence, achieving emotional effects that transcend the sometimes mere "pretty picture-making" of the Hammer and AIP Gothic's of the same period. The end result is a work of rare power and beauty -- a work that nevertheless ran into censorship problems for daring to explore the psychosexual ramifications of sadomasochism. Bava's intention, however, is neither prurient, titillation nor prudish disapproval. Instead, it can be read as a proto-feminist work that explores, with a sympathetic disposition, one woman's doomed attempt to rebel against her male oppressors and abusers. Above all else, it is a tragedy in traditional horror film settings....
Great movies are timeless.


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